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Articles tagged with: Nutrition
A Parliamentary peek into the inner workings of Commercial Compounding Manufacturing Partner content
Health
By British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA)
A Parliamentary peek into the inner workings of Commercial Compounding Manufacturing
On Friday 6 May, BSNA were delighted to welcome Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP to visit her local Commercial Compounding facility in Thetford, Norfolk, and to join with Mount Vernon Cancer Centre to welcome local MP David Simmonds on a tour of the hospital’s pharmacy unit.
Why malnutrition should be a priority for health care Partner content
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By British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA)
Why malnutrition should be a priority for health care
It often gets overlooked, but its importance is undeniable. This Nutrition and Hydration Week, BSNA reflects on the importance of addressing malnutrition in Integrated Care Systems.
BANT celebrates 25 years as the leading professional organisation for Nutritional Therapy Practitioners Partner content
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
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
Please put child health before party politics, Boris
Health
By Jamie Oliver
Please put child health before party politics, Boris
Recent reports that Boris Johnson is considering ditching critical child health policies as part of a “red meat strategy” to shore up support from Conservative backbench MPs really does feel like Groundhog Day.
How can we implement effective strategies to alleviate and support long-COVID? Partner content
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
How can we implement effective strategies to alleviate and support long-COVID?
With the so-called curse of “Long-COVID” estimated to affect a third of people post-infection, the legacy of this virus is set to disrupt populations for years to come. It is still unclear as to why some people experience the virus more, or less, severely, and why prolonged symptoms linger in some but not in others.
Championing dairy milk for British children on World School Milk Day
Health
By Daniel Zeichner MP
Championing dairy milk for British children on World School Milk Day
It is no coincidence that as milk schemes are squeezed, levels of child malnutrition increase and obesity soars.
Informing consumer choice is vital to the levelling up health agenda Partner content
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By Danone UK
Informing consumer choice is vital to the levelling up health agenda
If we are serious about levelling up, we must give everyone the opportunity to make more informed nutrition choices.
We must broaden diversity and inclusion in personalised nutrition and lifestyle medicine Partner content
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
We must broaden diversity and inclusion in personalised nutrition and lifestyle medicine
Addressing the rise in non-communicable disease, lifestyle choices and health inequalities is imperative.
Medical nutrition is a vital cog in the NHS response to Covid-19 Partner content
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By British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA)
Medical nutrition is a vital cog in the NHS response to Covid-19
It is now over a year since the first cases of patients with COVID-19 were admitted to hospital in the UK, and following huge innovation and improvements in the treatments on offer, and the successful take up of vaccinations across all age groups, the link between cases and hospitalisation looks close to being broken.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT welcomes the BJGP article on the ‘lifestyle medicine movement’ and opens the door to further discussions.
BANT welcomes the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) May 4th article on lifestyle medicine and is encouraged by the acknowledgement of well-informed drivers validating this movement.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT calls time on counting calories over promoting food quality and nutrients
The time has come to recognise the folly of counting calories in favour of recognising the importance of food quality and nutrient diversity says BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) in their new Food for your Health Campaign, launched 22nd February 2021.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
New food-first tactics are needed to tackle the modifiable factors involved in obesity and metabolic dysregulation
Figures show that a staggering 63% of the British population is now classified as overweight or obese (1).
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT calls for recognition of personalised nutrition with the launch of their Food for your Health campaign
BANT has campaigned for improved nutrition initiatives for over twenty years but is now consolidating its knowledge and reputation with the launch on 22 February 2021 of its own long-term campaign entitled: Food for your Health.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT launches its NEW “Food for your Health” Campaign to target the rise in diet-induced metabolic illness
“Never before have our food choices been so important for our health and wellbeing” is the strapline of the new BANT campaign “Food for your Health” launching this February 2021.
When living in an age of ultra-processed foods, how can we protect our health? Partner content
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
When living in an age of ultra-processed foods, how can we protect our health?
A series of recent scientific studies have highlighted how bad ultra-processed foods and drinks (UPFD) are for human health, and BANT repeatedly recommend that this category of foods and drinks is avoided as much as possible. But in a world where the scientific community and the media, contradicts itself from one day to the next, how bad are they for your health?
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Coronavirus
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Government heeds advice on Vitamin D and offers 4 months’ supply to the most vulnerable
Following the sustained pressure from the scientific community, including BANT’s call for extraordinary supplementation of Vitamins C & D as a preventative measure for COVID-19, the government has finally acted on Vitamin D.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Excluding nutrition from mainstream healthcare has contributed to the catastrophic impact of SARS-CoV-2
For too long nutrition has been dismissed by mainstream healthcare models, despite clear evidence that diet and lifestyle choices either contribute to health or to increased risk factors for chronic disease.
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Coronavirus
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT recommends ‘extraordinary’ Vitamin C and Vitamin D supplementation for all adults as part of a wider prevention strategy for Covid-19
With the apparent second wave of Covid-19 worsening, BANT recommends all adults supplement 1g of Vitamin C and a minimum of 600-800 IU/d vitamin D3 daily, increasing to a higher therapeutic dose of 5000 IU/d should symptoms develop.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Compelling Evidence on Vitamin D status and severity of Covid-19 symptoms prompts MP David Davis to speak out
“A cheap way of tackling covid-19 is being ignored” warns British MP and former cabinet minister David Davis in the face of mounting evidence that Vitamin D status reduces Covid-19 severity.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT Baffled by Contrary Government Schemes: The ‘Better Health’ Campaign Versus ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ Scheme
BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) was pleased to announce its support for the recently announced Governmental ‘Better Health’ campaign.
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By Save the Children
A welcome recognition of the needs and challenges faced by families with children on Universal Credit
The National Food Strategy’s recommendation to extend free school meals to more children who need them would go a long way to making sure children get enough to eat.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT supports the ‘Better Health’ campaign but cautions against the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach
BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) whole-heartedly supports any Governmental focus on improving the health of the British nation, a goal that BANT has, itself, been campaigning for over the past 20 years.
Why medical foods are vital to the treatment and recovery of Covid-19 patients Partner content
Coronavirus
By British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA)
Why medical foods are vital to the treatment and recovery of Covid-19 patients
Medical foods, whether through continued tube feeds, oral nutritional supplements or dysphagia products, will therefore play a significant role in supporting many patients while in hospital and as they progress through the rehabilitation process and seek to recover from the long term physiological impact of Covid-19.
Supermarkets can be our allies in tackling the childhood obesity timebomb
Health
By Steve McCabe MP
Supermarkets can be our allies in tackling the childhood obesity timebomb
Supermarkets have a major role to play in the drive to improve the nation’s health, but their potential is yet untapped.