{"id":16310,"date":"2021-05-07T17:48:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2021-09-13T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T07:39:12","slug":"nutrition-evidence-alert-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/nutrition-evidence-alert-april-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Evidence Alert \u2013 April 2021 – Diversity & Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diversity –\u00a0Influences of Ethnic and Social Backgrounds<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As lockdown eases and some normality returns, there does appear to be an increasing awareness of the importance of food choices for our health and well-being.\u00a0 However, we know that diet, lifestyle and health are heavily influenced by factors such as background, culture and socio-economic status.\u00a0 We also know that Nutritional Therapy is often not accessible to those who need us most.<\/p>\n

This month, to coincide with the launch of BANT\u2019s diversity project panel, our focus is on the topic of diversity. In our profession we see the term \u2018diversity\u2019 used in various contexts, however, for the purpose of this Nutrition Evidence Alert,\u00a0we are looking at inclusivity of people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds.<\/p>\n

BANT is committed to increasing diversity within the nutritional therapy sector \u2013 encouraging and supporting practitioners from a range of backgrounds and making nutritional therapy services available and applicable to the widest possible audience.<\/p>\n

This will require a range of initiatives; from finding ways to make our services more accessible from a financial standpoint, to ensuring practitioners are equipped to support the unique needs of different groups, and collaborating with training providers to increase awareness and accessibility of nutritional therapy as a profession.<\/p>\n

In this issue of the Nutrition Evidence Alert the editorial team has selected\u00a031\u00a0papers<\/a> to provide examples of just some of the areas we need to consider when working with different groups and the impact on outcomes these can have.\u00a0 Those that have been indexed by the team are listed below.<\/p>\n

Recommended Blog and Podcast this month<\/h2>\n

Race Equality Foundation:\u00a0Covid-19 and How it Affects Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic People and\u00a0Communities<\/a><\/p>\n

Naked Nutrition:\u00a0Gut Health and Sex<\/a>\u00a0with Miguel Toribio-Mateas, May 2020<\/p>\n

From our Guest Editor: Clare Evans<\/h2>\n

\"\"Clare Evans is a management consultant who has led and contributed to multiple Diversity & Inclusion programmes both in the UK and Middle East. Clare is passionate about inclusion and presented on the importance of diversity & inclusion and the UN Women\u2019s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) at a Women in Construction (WiC) Summit in Dubai in 2019. She also led her organisation to win \u2018Gender Diversity Champion of the Year, 2019\u2019 at the Middle East Consultant Awards.
\nClare is an NLP practitioner, has an Msc in Personlised Nutrition from CNELM and is currently studying to complete a Personalised Nutrition Practice Diploma (PNPD), also at CNELM.
\nClare is a volunteer in BANT\u2019s Diversity & Inclusion project team.<\/p>\n

These are Clare’s top picks of research:<\/h2>\n

Sociodemographic and lifestyle-related risk factors for identifying vulnerable groups for type 2 diabetes: a narrative review with emphasis on data from Europe<\/a>\u00a0in BMC Endocrine Disorders. 2020<\/p>\n

Intellectual disability and nutrition-related health<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0EMBO molecular medicine. 2020<\/p>\n

COVID-19: Unique public health issues facing Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities<\/a>.\u00a0Current problems in cardiology. 2020<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 Pandemic: a Call to Action to Identify and Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 2020<\/p>\n

Greater risk of severe COVID-19 in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations is not explained by cardiometabolic, socioeconomic or behavioural factors, or by 25(OH)-vitamin D status: study of 1326 cases from the UK Biobank<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of public health (Oxford, England). 2020<\/p>\n

COVID-19: Exposing and addressing health disparities among ethnic minorities and migrants<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of travel medicine. 2020<\/p>\n

Ethnicity and Type 2 diabetes in the UK.<\/a>\u00a0Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association. 2019<\/p>\n

Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Diagnoses in the UK: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Health Improvement Network Primary Care Database.<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Clinical epidemiology. 2019<\/p>\n

Trends in incidence of total or type 2 diabetes: systematic review.<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2019<\/p>\n

Heterogeneity in blood pressure in UK Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani, compared to White, populations: divergence of adults and children.<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Journal of human hypertension. 2018<\/p>\n

A Narrative Review of The Role of Foods as Dietary Sources of Vitamin D of Ethnic Minority Populations with Darker Skin: The Underestimated Challenge.<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Nutrients. 2019<\/p>\n

Associations of dietary intake with cardiometabolic risk in a multi-ethnic cohort: a longitudinal analysis of the Determinants of Adolescence, now young Adults, Social well-being and Health (DASH) study.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>The British journal of nutrition. 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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