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Prevention is crucial, but the nation’s health crisis needs innovation not just investment
Funding for prevention should reflect the scale of the problem The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) welcomes the publication of the Hewitt review of integrated care...
BANT supports Dimbleby’s protest at government’s “insane” inaction against obesity.
Junk food culture mean Brits eat more ultra-processed than real food. The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) fully supports Henry Dimbleby’s move to step down from his...
There are not enough GPs to tackle the burden of non-communicable diseases
Nutrition practitioners are a crucial addition to every Primary Care Network General Practitioners are the gate-keepers to primary healthcare. In the dawn of the NHS this model worked. You called the...
We know prevention is better than the cure, and it could be the only way to save the NHS
We need to act now to stop eating our way into poor health and disease. The crisis and strikes affecting the NHS dominate headlines across the country, with our national health service facing the...
BANT calls for Government to improve, not remove ‘Obesity Strategy’
BANT calls for action to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed junk foods, which underpin the worsening obesity epidemic in the UK, and renews calls for meaningful policy, not procrastination in...
BANT response to the BMJ re misrepresentation of Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners
In response to the BMJ article ‘Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse’ BANT would like to draw attention to the inconsistencies in the...
The National Food Strategy White paper is more of a whitewash!
This non-strategy falls way short of delivering against health targets BANT is dismayed to see the dilution of the National Food Strategy (NFS) recommendations to such an extent that ‘health’ is...
BANT celebrates 25 years as the leading professional organisation for Nutritional Therapy Practitioners
Setting the standard of excellence in science-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine The 14th of March 2022 marks a landmark anniversary for BANT as it celebrates 25 years as the leading professional...