Category Archives: British Association for Nutritional Therapy
BANT fail to reply to complaint from 25/10/09
BANT have not even acknowledged my complaint e-mail Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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
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
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
