Useful Resources

Professional Organisations and Nutritionist Registers

  • Association for Nutrition
    • The Association for Nutrition is a professional body that holds the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists (UKVRN), a competency-based register of Nutritionists. It sets proficiency and competence criteria, promotes continuing professional development, and accredits university undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

  • British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy
    • BANT is the professional body for Nutritional Therapists. All BANT practitioners must have met the required standards of training, be fully insured and adhere to the BANT Code of Ethics and Practice.

  • Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
    • Previously the Nutritional Therapy Council held this register, until it was transferred to the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. The CNHC ‘quality mark’ is supported by the Department of Health

  • Federation of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners
    • The FNTP provide information on education providers, if you want to train as a Nutritional Therapist or are already a qualified practitioner looking to extend your training via Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses.

  • Nutrition Society
    • This is the largest society for nutrition in Europe. The Nutrition Society aims ‘to advance the scientific study of nutrition and its applications to the maintenance of human and animal health'. They do this through research, hosting conferences, and increasing the profile of nutrition.

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  • My Healthy Waist
    • The most comprehensive educational website on the relationships between abdominal obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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