{"id":3037,"date":"2015-02-12T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bantuat.org\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:22:19","slug":"written-evidence-submitted-by-the-british-association-for-applied-nutrition-and-nutritional-therapy-bant-to-the-health-select-committee-of-the-house-of-lords-published-12-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/written-evidence-submitted-by-the-british-association-for-applied-nutrition-and-nutritional-therapy-bant-to-the-health-select-committee-of-the-house-of-lords-published-12-february-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Written evidence submitted by the BANT to the Health Select Committee of the House of Lords published 12 February, 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written evidence submitted by British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT)\u00a0\u00a0to the Health Select Committee of the House of Lords following public consultation on the Healthy Eating Puzzle plates has been published today as part of the Select Committee&#8217;s current enquiry into the effects of physical exercise and diet on health.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of BANT\u00a0Miguel\u00a0Toribio-Mateas\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cthe costs of obesity\u00a0and diet-related disease (cardiovascular disease, some cancers, osteoporosis,\u00a0mental health), both social and financial, demand\u00a0that those working in the nutrition profession are up-to-date and\u00a0appropriately qualified.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dietary intervention based on\u00a0knowledge of nutritional requirement, nutritional status, and genotype (i.e.,\u00a0\u201cpersonalised\u00a0nutrition\u201d) can be used to prevent, mitigate or cure chronic disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full press release is available via Politics Home:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/document\/press-release\/written-evidence-submitted-bant-health-select-committee\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/document\/press-release\/written-evidence-submitted-bant-health-select-committee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANT&#8217;s written evidence is available to download from the Health Select Committe&#8217;s enquiry page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/health-committee\/inquiries\/parliament-2010\/physical-activity-and-diet\/?type=Written#pnlPublicationFilter\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/health-committee\/inquiries\/parliament-2010\/physical-activity-and-diet\/?type=Written#pnlPublicationFilter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written evidence submitted by British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT)\u00a0\u00a0to the Health Select Committee of the House of Lords following public consultation on the Healthy Eating Puzzle plates has been published today as part of the Select Committee&#8217;s current enquiry into the effects of physical exercise and diet on health. Chair of BANT\u00a0Miguel\u00a0Toribio-Mateas\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cthe costs of obesity\u00a0and diet-related disease (cardiovascular disease, some cancers, osteoporosis,\u00a0mental health), both social and financial, demand\u00a0that those working in the nutrition profession are up-to-date and\u00a0appropriately qualified.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dietary intervention based on\u00a0knowledge of nutritional requirement, nutritional status,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}