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Understanding Differences: Modern Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
BANT experts are clear that fructose, and not just calories, poses a problem that promotes a progressive loss of metabolic function. An elevated total fructose load, combined with an excessive...
Press Release – Cancer Risk on Bacon and Cured Meats
Today, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer has released a report warning that bacon, ham and sausages are as big a cancer threat as cigarettes....
BANT Invited to Join All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes (APPGD)
BANT has been asked to join All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes (APPGD), a group of Members of Parliament and Peers with a special interest in the issue of diabetes. The APPGD is one of the...
Launch of BANT Wellbeing Guidelines
The long anticipated BANT Wellbeing Guidelines are finally here. Based on the latest nutritional research and subjected to a public consultation, the BANT Wellbeing Guidelines are the most up-to-date...
BANT Opens up a New Membership Category
We are excited to announce that on 14th September, BANT is opening up its membership to include an Affiliate Membership category. This new category is open to all those who are members/registrants of...
BANT is Recruiting a Volunteer Manager
Volunteers are pivotal to the future of BANT and its goal to develop the Nutritional Therapy profession. The Volunteering Manager will be responsible for developing and managing the volunteer...
What is a ‘Nutrient’? Consultation – Closing Date 21 August 2015
Defining a ‘nutrient’ better fit for purpose in the age of genomics and metabolomics is now a priority. We need a fuller biological description so that we can ask more questions, for example are...
Sugar tax? Health economics demands ALL unhealthy foods be VATable
The British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy says a tax on all unhealthy food would disincentivise consumption and ‘provide tax receipts towards health care...