What is Nutritional Therapy?
Nutritional therapy is the application of nutrition and lifestyle medicine sciences in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care.
Resources to help you start your wellbeing journey for a healthy happier you!
Currently, our national UK diet is comprised of more than 50% ultra-processed foods and drinks, and our health is worsening. 25 million people in England are projected to be living with major illness by 2040. Never have our food choices been so important for our health and wellbeing. Use our food and lifestyle guides to start your health journey.
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Stay up to date with all the latest news from BANT. Follow us on our social media channels, read our latest feature articles, stay informed about BANT position on current nutrition and healthcare affairs via our dedicated Politics Home PR channel (Politics Home is an indispensable information source for the most influential people in UK politics – including Cabinet ministers, MPs, peers, senior civil servants and Westminster journalists), and access the emerging science in our monthly NED Alerts.
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Elsie Widdowson (1961): the futility of national dietary guidelines
In 1961, addressing the Nutrition Society, Elsie Widdowson drew on her wartime experience designing and monitoring the UK’s rationing system to make a stark observation: any national dietary guideline broad
On NG246 AI says: @NICEComms NICE cannot meet its statutory obligations if it imports NG246 into clinical guidelines. NG246 is a population‑level behavioural guideline built on RNIs that exclude functional physiological endpoints. Using NG246 as clinical evidence breaches NICE’s
BANT at the Yes to Life Cancer Charity Conference
For the third year running, BANT will be exhi
11 September, 2026
HFSS Is Broken by Design — And the Nutrient Profiling Model Still Can’t Fix It
For nearly two decades, the UK’s Nutrient Pro
22 June, 2026
NED Alert – NED Journal Issue 12 and NED Article – Cardiovascular Health
BANT and the NED Editorial Board are delighte
07 August, 2026
RESOURCES
Latest resources supporting informed nutrition and lifestyle choices
BANT Wellbeing Guidelines are evidenced-based guidelines providing information on nutrition and lifestyle measures when personalised advice is not possible.
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Join us online on Saturday 31 October 2026 to deep dive into Men’s Health: Andropause, Male Fertility, Prostate, Metabolic & Mental Health. Tickets and further information here.
BANT nutrition practitioners are specifically trained in sustainable weight loss and behaviour change and can provide the necessary support to ensure safe use of GLP-1 medications, and safe transition from medications to long-term weight maintenance.
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Scientific database specialising in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, providing the best evidence available for clinical interventions. Discover the Nutrition Evidence Database