Category Archives: BANT

BANT fail to reply to complaint from 25/10/09

BANT have not even acknowledged my complaint e-mail Continue reading

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You & Yours on Barbara Nash and the risks of nutritional therapy Updated (again)

RD Catherine Collins and BAANT Chair Emma Styles appear on You and Yours to discuss the relative competencies of registered dietitians who are members of the HPC and the current Wild Wild West that means anybody can call themselves a nutritionist. They discuss the disastrous consequences of a detox diet for Dawn Page who accepted an out of court settlement with Barbara Nash’s insurers. Continue reading

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Is Holfordism Harmless? Part 1

A commenter recently posted some thoughts, opinions and questions that raised the wider question: Is Holfordism harmless? She obviously has a sufficiently strong interest in nutrition to prompt her to consider dedicating time and money to studying it. I saw … Continue reading

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Why it is easy to get the incorrect impression that BANT is a regulator

As I’ve shown, the British Association for Nutritional Therapy (BANT) is not a regulator for nutritionists, and does not fulfill the functions of a good regulator. If the organisation were represented as a non-regulator (as a lobby group, say) that … Continue reading

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British Association for Nutritional Therapy – when an organisation looks like a regulator, quacks like a regulator, but isn’t a regulator

11111It is important for healthcare providers to be properly regulated. An important aspect of this is the transparency of the regulatory process: for example, the GMC (which regulates Britain’s medical doctors) makes its guidelines on good practice available on its … Continue reading

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