Complementary Therapies and Nutrition
British Association for Nutritional Therapy (BANT)
BANT is the largest professional body for Nutritional Therapists and its primary function is to assist its members in attaining the highest standards of integrity, knowledge, competence and professional practice, in order to protect the client's interests, nutritional therapy and the Nutritional Therapist.
www.bant.org.uk
British Nutrition Foundation
The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) was established over 40 years ago and exists to deliver authoritative, evidence-based information on food and nutrition in the context of health and lifestyle. .
www.nutrition.org.uk
Coeliac UK
Coeliac UK is the leading charity working for people with coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Our mission is to improve the lives of people with coeliac disease through support, campaigning and research.
www.coeliac.co.uk
Food Standards Agency
This UK website can be difficult to navigate because of the sheer wealth of information. From the home page, click on the “nutrition” button on the menu. From there you can navigate further. Alternatively, type “recommended daily intake” into the search engine on the homepage.
www.food.gov.uk/
Penny Brohn Cancer Care
Penny Brohn Cancer Care a charity which offers specialist support including complementary therapies, advice & counselling for people living with cancer & their supporters
www.pennybrohncancercare.org
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Information about the complementary therapies most often used by people with cancer. Many people use complementary therapies to help support themselves through cancer and its treatment.
www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Cancertreatment/Complementarytherapies/Complementarytherapies.aspx
NHS Direct
This UK website contains comprehensive information about all aspects of health and ill-health. Strat on the home page and click on “health encyclopaedia”. Type “healthy eating” into the search field. This will take you among other things to a quiz to test your healthy eating knowledge and a body mass index calculator. Alternatively go to the health encyclopaedia page and click on “nutrition food and diet”.
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Nutrition Society
The Nutrition Society is a membership organisation that is open to those with a genuine interest in the science of human or animal nutrition.
www.nutritionsociety.org
The Food and Mood Community Interest Company (previously the Food and Mood Project)
This web-based user-led social enterprise founded with a Mind Millennium Award in 1998 sells dietary self-help resources for individuals and groups, including a DIY Food and Mood Workshop pack and The Food and Mood Handbook.
www.mind.org.uk/foodandmood
The Holistic Cancer Care Centre - Middlesbrough
The Centre provides a range of supportive therapies to complement the orthodox treatments of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. Trained practitioners provide these therapies free of charge.
www.holisticcancercarecentre.org.uk
Last updated: 10/01/2011
