Nutritional Therapy is defined by the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) as "the application of nutrition and lifestyle medicine sciences in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care". 

 

Registered Nutritional Therapists assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. Practitioners consider each individual to be unique and recommend personalised nutrition and lifestyle programmes rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach.

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Registered Nutritional Therapists have trained for a minimum of 3 years. Only Registered Nutritional Therapists and Registered Dietitians are trained and qualified in clinical practice to meet UK national standards and to work in a one-to-one clinical setting. I am referring to UK standards as the nutrition profession landscape is more developed beyond dietetics in the UK than it is in Ireland. 
 

BANT members are required to be registered either with Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) or be statutorily regulated. CNHC holds a register accredited by the UK Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA), an independent body accountable to the UK Parliament.

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