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Informing consumer choice is vital to the levelling up health agenda

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20 Jul 2021 Health

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

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14 Jul 2021 Health

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

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05 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

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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07 May 2021 Health

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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15 Mar 2021 Health

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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08 Mar 2021 Health

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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01 Mar 2021 Health

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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22 Feb 2021 Health

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?

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24 Nov 2020 Health

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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09 Nov 2020 Coronavirus

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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15 Oct 2020 Health

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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14 Oct 2020 Coronavirus

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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13 Oct 2020 Coronavirus

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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03 Aug 2020 Health

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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29 Jul 2020 Health

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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27 Jul 2020 Health

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

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21 May 2020 Coronavirus

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

20 Mar 2020 Health

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.

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