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Entries Tagged as ‘British Association for Nutritional Therapy’
April 15, 2008
The blogosphere: keeping an eye on Holford
The blogosphere has recently been keeping a good eye on Prof Patrick Holford of Teesside University’s work. Damian Thompson offers A quick reminder to opponents of counterknowledge to keep a close eye on the Andrew Wakefield case…PROFESSOR Patrick Holford of Teeside University has been one of Andrew Wakefield’s most passionate supporters…Holford’s association with the university [...]
July 14, 2007
Should you let a ‘nutritional therapist’ treat your children?
Food for the Brain’s website sometimes suggests that parents use a ‘nutritional therapist’ to monitor potentially harmful nutritional interventions. Certainly, treatments like exclusion diets – while sometimes very useful – also have health risks attached, and (especially in children) should be monitored by a competent professional. So, can one assume that a ‘nutritional therapist’ is [...]
June 20, 2007
Holford, Wakefield and effective regulation
Patrick Holford e-mailed his mailing list today about GETTING TO THE GUTS OF TRUTH ABOUT AUTISM, ALLERGY AND MMR. There’s way too much in this e-mail to address in one post – but I’ll make a start tonight. Holford objects to Wakefield’s forthcoming GMC disciplinary hearing – arguing that “Dr Andrew Wakefield…is facing a hearing [...]
May 30, 2007
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 Patrick Holford on tv the other day and was quite impressed. I have also been [...]
May 11, 2007
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 would be fair enough. However, the way that some nutritionists describe BANT makes it easy [...]
May 9, 2007
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 website, along with its hearings and decisions. Dieticians are regulated by the HPC, and you [...]
