Supply Issues with Nutritional Borderline Substances and Ancillaries

The BDA is concerned about supply issues caused by shortages in Nutrition Borderline Substances (NBS), used to manage medical conditions and enteral feeding ancillaries as a result of global supply chain challenges, being felt across all four nations of the UK.

Children and Young people with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

This position statement aims to raise awareness that dietitians are central to the assessment and treatment of children and young people with ARFID.

Working with industry or promoting products - Considerations for dietitians

The BDA believes that as regulated nutrition experts, dietitians can protect and improve public health by working with commercial companies.

Complementary Feeding

A position statement on complementary feeding (sometimes referred to as weaning)

Food Poverty

The BDA believes that nobody should live in food poverty and that UK Government and local authorities must take urgent action to lift people out of food poverty and prevent others from falling into food poverty. This should include enshrining a “Right to Food” in UK law.

The Use of Blended Diet with Enteral Feeding Tubes

This position statement aims to support UK dietitians in clinical practice (in both paediatric and adult settings) to ensure tube-fed individuals receive effective, evidence-based, equitable and quality care.

Low carbohydrate diets for the management of Type 2 Diabetes in adults

Low-carbohydrate diets (i.e. defined as diets containing between 50g and 130g carbohydrate) can be effective in managing weight, improving glycaemic control and cardiovascular risk in people with Type 2 diabetes in the short term

The Management of Malnourished Adults in All Community and All Health and Care Settings

Dietitians have the expertise both at an individual patient and strategic level to identify, assess, care plan, treat, monitor and review individuals to achieve patient-centred outcomes, and train others to prevent and treat malnutrition.

UK Government's Childhood Obesity Strategy

The BDA supports and welcomes the government’s current childhood obesity strategy, published in August 2016. However, the association strongly believes that additional actions are needed to reduce the unacceptably high prevalence of childhood obesity in the UK.

Breastfeeding

The BDA strongly supports breastfeeding. We recognise that breastfeeding is the optimum form of nutrition for babies and that breastfeeding protects the health of babies and their mothers.