Hopefully you all had a relaxing and enjoyable summer, maybe taken the opportunity to catch up on some nutritional reading or viewing when rain stopped play. This issue is a short one to ease you into the new academic year with a look back at a webinar that happened over the summer, important research that was published last week and a reminder to complete the BANT members\u2019 survey.<\/p>\n
August BANT Webinar: Nutrition Evidence Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This webinar introduces the Nutrition Evidence Database, a platform of high quality nutritional science and lifestyle medicine research. It has been designed to support nutritional practitioners\u2019 in their clinical decisions, enabling the delivery of effective, individualised evidence-based recommendations. The webinar includes:<\/p>\n This webinar takes you through a step-by-step demonstration of how to use the Nutrition Evidence Database and shows you how it works in practice.<\/p>\n This webinar provides realistic and practical advice designed to support nutritional therapy practice, whether you are a student who has just started seeing clients for the first time or have been in practice for many years.<\/p>\n To access the webinar,\u00a0click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Lancet Study Highlights a Lower Carbohydrate, High Fat Diet May Support Health<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lancet published research based on a large cohort from multiple countries that looked at associations between macronutrient intake and cardiovascular events, including fatalities, which can be viewed here<\/a>.\u00a0 It was found that higher carbohydrate intake was \u201cassociated with higher risk of total mortality\u201d, whereas that was not associated with cardiovascular disease events or fatalities.<\/p>\n Importantly it was stated that \u201cdietary guidelines should be reconsidered in light of these findings\u201d. \u00a0BANT picked up on this paper, their response calling for dietary guideline change can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Urgent \u2013 Help us do the best for you by taking just 10 minutes to complete the BANT Member Survey<\/strong><\/p>\n BANT needs your invaluable feedback on how you feel about what the organisation is achieving on your behalf, so that we can continually improve how we support you as a Registered Nutritional Therapist or student Nutritional Therapist.\u00a0 So please take 10 minutes to complete the survey and as an added bonus you could win a \u00a350 Amazon Voucher!!<\/p>\n Just click the below to enter the survey:<\/strong> The survey will close at 6.00pm on Tuesday 5th September 2017 (TODAY!)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026 don\u2019t go yet \u2013 if you have any\u00a0recipes,\u00a0reviews,\u00a0book recommendations\u00a0or comments\u00a0,\u00a0or there\u2019s something you\u2019d like to see, please send it to\u00a0studentsocialmedia@bant.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0post it on our\u00a0LinkedIn\u00a0<\/a>page\u00a0(BANT Student Network). Or don\u2019t forget\u00a0twitter<\/a>\u00a0(@BANTonline)\u00a0and our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0account\u00a0(BANT Members Group). We\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hopefully you all had a relaxing and enjoyable summer, maybe taken the opportunity to catch up on some nutritional reading or viewing when rain stopped play. This issue is a short one to ease you into the new academic year with a look back at a webinar that happened over the summer, important research that was published last week and a reminder to complete the BANT members\u2019 survey. August BANT Webinar: Nutrition Evidence Database\u00a0 This webinar introduces the Nutrition Evidence Database, a platform of high quality nutritional science and lifestyle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bant-student-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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