In comparing Christian literature and Islamic literature in regard to Satan, there appears to be a clear dichotomy as to how each faith treats Satan in relation to both God and man. As it would seem, Islam lessens the stature of Satan, demeans him whereas Christianity elevates him to quite a lofty status. To most, this wouldn't be noticeable but when the Islamic view and the Christian view of Satan is considered, the outcome can be quite disturbing.
"O mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and good on the earth, and follow not the footsteps of Satan. Verily, he is to you an open enemy." – 2:168.
"All praise is to Allah, the Lord Of The Creation." – 1:2.
Does sin restrict God's mercy in Islam? No, God forgives all sins.
Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful." – 39:53.
"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil." – Matthew 4:1.
"Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor." – Matthew 4:7-8.
Here we have Jesus who Christians claim to be God, telling Satan not to put him to test and what does Satan do? He puts Jesus or God, to test. Not only that, Satan then proceeds to take Jesus or God from one place to another thus demonstrating his power and will are on par with Jesus'/ God's.
"(Satan) In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." – 2 Corinthians 4:4.
Does sin restrict God's mercy in Christianity?
"but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin." – Mark 3:29.
As one can see in Christianity, Satan is the rival to God. He rivals God on His Lordship (power, stature, ability) and the sin which Satan spreads (blasphemy) cannot be forgiven by God, He (God) is restricted by Satan's spreading of sin. Whereas in Islam, Satan cannot rival God, he is a rival to mankind. Only God is the true Lord of all creation, nothing is equal in power, stature or ability to Him (God) and He can forgive all sins, regardless of whom Satan misguides. Satan is subordinate to Allah (God), whereas in Christianity this is not the case. Therefore, it stands to reason that Christianity elevates Satan to a pedestal whereas Islam declares him lowly in God's sight, subordinate to God.
Jesus wasn't referring to himself as "the Lord your God," rather he was making it clear that simply because God has promised to save him from danger doesn't mean that he should intentionally put himself in danger ( thereby testing God) to see if God would live up to his promise. Earlier on satan asked him to jump off a building since it was written that God would send angels to rescue him. Jesus responds that, that doesn't mean that I should test God to see if he will really do what He says.
i.e. don't test God to see if He would really live up to what He says.
Christians believe Jesus is God and it is in light of their belief that I'm using their own interpretation/ understanding against them.
It's clear that you know very little about the Bible and Christian theology. You twist what little you know and misrepresent Christian teaching. Which I guess is fair play because Christians don't really understand your religion either.
Christianity doesn't take Satan lightly, but it does not elevate Satan's power to almost equal to God's. You need to keep in mind that Christians believe that Jesus is God (not a god, but God) so therefore Satan was tempting God when he was tempting Jesus. Christians believe God can be in more than one place and in more than one of his persons at the same time. Who are you to disbelieve the powers and mysteries of God??? Maybe Satan has been talking in your ears too long because you've underestimated Satan's power and influence in this world.
Personally I think it's all myths to help us understand the inexplicable. The insistence on believing that you know the absolute truth is called the sin of spiritual pride, which is a form of blaspheming against God's spirit.
but if the unseen person of trinity became WEAK (the spirit of the person) , then satan had an elevated status over the unseen son.
satan tempted god, flew him to a mountain and offered him places. an unseen satan/evil spirit dominated and killed an unseen son/spirit of trinity. satan in his powers removed control of jesus the son and took over jesus the son's flesh body. satan did destroy your god.
your god can be in cloud, flesh, unrecognizable Gardner, meat of any animal, fire etc. would you be the first to worship an unknown random flesh human who had holes in his hands and feet?
why not worship the PLACE your god was in since the place CONTAINED your god?
so god can be in satan too, so maybe satan is really god and it is a mystery?
your god/son of trinity is dependent (his SOUL ) is dependent on flesh organs and a body to come back to life. you christians are flesh worshipers even though you deny it.


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Recent public commentary on the use of pesticides by Australian farmers by CHOICE, the WWF, the Public Health Association of Australia and the National Toxics Network is misleading and deceptive. CropLife is disappointed that Australia's consumer advocate group CHOICE has decided to engage in an unscientific, false and fraudulent campaign against Australia's farmers.
Modern, responsible farmers carefully choose and apply agricultural chemical products to manage pests, weeds and diseases. Our farmers choose to implement safe and sustainable agricultural chemical products that are essential to produce healthy, nutritious and affordable food that all Australians enjoy. Without these tools, farmers face the dire possibility of losing more than half of their production. It is extraordinary that CHOICE would advocate a position that would significantly increase the cost of fresh food produced in Australia.
CropLife's Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Cossey, said "every single agricultural chemical product available for sale in Australia has been subjected to a rigorous, science-based risk assessment that takes into account Australia's unique circumstances, including demography, society and environment. Different circumstances, crops and companies consequently mean that different products are available in different countries".
It is disappointing to see that CHOICE has sought to hoodwink and mislead a range of eminent Australians through its deceptive actions.
For CHOICE to now advocate a position that is not based on science leads us to one of two conclusions: CHOICE is either seeking to deliberately mislead Australian consumers in an attempt to secure political objectives, or they are incompetent", said Mr Cossey.
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Advocating a position that will hinder Australia's capacity to produce its own food is to advocate for greater imports from countries that may not employ the same strict controls for food production as Australia.
CropLife calls upon CHOICE to publicly correct its false and misleading statements about agricultural chemical regulation in Australia.
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This document, which contains Napoleon Lajoie's authentic signature, details his Appeal of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's decision to grant an injunction to prohibit him from playing baseball with any team other the Philadelphia Phillies.
Several of the most important legal documents in the early history of Major League Baseball trace their origins to a protracted legal battle resulting from Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie jumping his contract with the National League's Philadelphia Phillies to play for the upstart American League Philadelphia Athletics. This move gave the A's instant credibility as a major league team, and helped foster animosity between the two leagues. The Lajoie case remains relevant in sports law today.
The Pennsylvania State Archives holds a number of documents related to this case. The image shown is of Napoleon Lajoie's Appeal of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's decision to grant an injunction to prohibit him from playing baseball with any team other the Philadelphia Phillies. It contains Lajoie's authentic signature. The Archives also holds the State Supreme Court's decision to reverse the decree of Common Pleas Court No. 5 by granting an injunction in the case of Philadelphia Ball Club (Phillies) vs. Napoleon Lajoie and a Judgment of Non Pros entered by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania which effectively discontinued the injunction against Lajoie playing baseball for teams other than the Philadelphia Phillies.
After the 1900 baseball season, the newly formed American League declared open war on the National League. The American League renounced baseball's reserve clause that had bound players to their respective professional teams. Thereafter, bidding wars were fought between the two leagues over players' services. The National League lost more than 100 of its players to the new American League for the 1901 season. Players switched teams primarily for more money, as the upstart American League paid higher wages. Lajoie was probably the biggest loss for the National League, as he was just reaching his prime and was the most skilled hitter of the day. Nap won the Triple Crown in the American League in 1901, leading the junior circuit in batting average, home runs and runs batted in. His batting average of .426 is the still the highest batting average ever achieved in an American League season.
In early 1901, the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, Colonel John L. Rogers, filed suit in state court to try to regain Lajoie's services. Common Pleas Court No. 5 rejected the Phillies request for an injunction against Lajoie and the American League on May 17, 1901. The Phillies promptly appealed this decision.
Two days before the start of the 1902 baseball season, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reversed the lower court's decision and declared that Lajoie should be prohibited from playing for any other professional baseball club other than the Phillies. This decision, filed on April 21, 1902, upheld the reserve clause and the Phillies' claim to Lajoie. It also established injunctions as a legal remedy to make players honor their contracts.
National League owners hailed the court's decision as a grand victory for themselves. The American League promised to fight the decision. Connie Mack, president of Philadelphia Ball Club Limited, played Lajoie in the Philadelphia Athletics' season opener in Baltimore against the Orioles on April 23, 1902. During the game, Mack received a telegram informing him that the Supreme Court had issued an injunction against Lajoie from playing for the Athletics. Mack removed Lajoie from what would end up being his last game as an Athletic for thirteen years.
Napoleon Lajoie appealed the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's decision on May 5, 1902. Nevertheless, Lajoie would not play another major league game for any team for about two months, as lawyers and club owners debated what the court's ruling actually demanded. Eventually, it was decided that the injunction was only effective in Pennsylvania. Not wishing to lose its greatest star in Lajoie, the American League persuaded the Athletics management to transfer Lajoie to the Cleveland franchise. For the remainder of 1902, Lajoie did not even accompany the Cleveland team when it visited Philadelphia, from fear of contempt of court citations or civil lawsuits.
After the 1902 season, the National League was forced to recognize that the American League had become too successful to destroy. Peace was made between the two leagues in early 1903 as the American League agreed to recognize the National Agreement and the reserve clause. Players who had jumped leagues during the "war" of 1901-1902 were allowed to stay with their present teams. The Phillies permitted the injunction against Lajoie to be dismissed by not continuing their action on Jan.5, 1903. Napoleon Lajoie continued his stellar major league career through 1916, amassing more than 3,000 career hits and a lifetime batting average of .338. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.
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Spider-Man: Far From Home Brings the Multiverse to the MCU
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Those who have been eagerly awaiting, and predicting, the first loss of the 2018 season for Colorado had yet another disappointing day on Saturday. The Buffaloes rode a four-touchdown day by budding superstar wideout Laviska Shenault Jr./strong> en route to a 28-21 win over Arizona State.
Colorado came from behind in each of the first three quarters, matching the Sun Devils touchdown-for-touchdown before finally taking the lead with their final score late in the 3rd quarter and holding on for the win. The Buffs shut the door on ASU with an impressive 13-play, 7-plus minute drive, running out the clock in the process.
Montez continued his top-flight play, completing 24 of 33 passes for 328 yards and two touchdowns, both to Shenault. The second TD pass was a particular thing of beauty, a perfectly thrown 30 yarder to Shenault in stride in the corner of the end zone.
The Buffalo signal-caller should face his toughest test yet this season as the Trojans defense features a talented and experienced (3 seniors) defensive backfield, led by ball-hawking free safety Marvell Tell III.
The junior also must contend with OLB Porter Gustin and his pass rushing prowess (6 sacks). Could be an interesting day for Montez, to say the least.
Shenault continued his electrifying play, hauling in 13 passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns. The super soph added to his ever-growing resume by rushing for two touchdowns from the wildcat formation.
Shenault has yet to be slowed, much less stopped, by any of Colorado's opponents at this point in the season. I thought ASU's aggressive D might have had a chance to keep up with the Buffs playmaker, but he just seems to elevate his play based on the level of competition.
The senior's level of success Saturday surprised me as I thought the playmaking front of Arizona State might slow him down. McMillian's day was an impressive, workman-like effort with 30 carries for 136 yards. Being able to rely on the veteran back down the stretch during the clock-killing drive proved crucial for Colorado.
The Trojans D features a bruising linebacking corps led by 3rd team All-American Cameron Smith. The senior ILB has recorded 47 total tackles, including 5 for loss. Gustin has added 7 ½ tackles for loss.
With Montez dealing with the heat of Gustin and Co. as well as the talented back end of the SC defense, a huge burden could fall on McMillian to keep up and maybe even expand his workload on the ground this week. The Trojan run defense will have a lot to say about that. Like Montez, this could be a very interesting game for the HB.
The Arizona State game was another seemingly subpar day for the senior. His stat line included 4 tackles. That will have to change on Saturday.
The Trojan offense features three running backs who average 5-plus yards per carry. SC will certainly be looking to pound the ball at the Buffs with the run game until they're given a good reason to stop. Gamboa and his LB cohorts need to show up this weekend in a big way or the USC offense could have a field day on the ground.
Worthington may have had his best game of 2018 against Arizona State. The veteran safety recorded seven tackles (five solos) as well as a defended pass in Saturday's win. It just might have been the coming out party for this season for Worthington.
True freshman QB JT Daniels has been inconsistent at best thus far for the Trojans. But the Trojans have been able to mask some of his issues with their RB trio effectively controlling things on offense. If last week's game is any indication, things are trending in the right direction for Worthington.
He could be key in forcing USC away from the ground game and into trusting their young QB's arm. I look for Worthington to have his most productive game yet.


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GorePlay: February Was Filled With New Horror Games
By Dan Whitehead · @DanWritehead · March 2, 2020, 4:26 PM EST
DAWN OF FEAR is an unashamed attempt to revive the classic 1990s survival horror genre. (Playstation.com)
February was supposed to be a month for flowers and romance, but it produced an absolute avalanche of so many new horror games that you would be forgiven for thinking that it's Halloween already. What are you waiting for? Load 'em up and check 'em out.
'Dawn of Fear'(PS4)
The first of several unashamed attempts to revive the classic 1990s survival horror genre, Dawn of Fear casts you as a young man returning to the sprawling family home after the suicide of your stepmother leaves you as the sole heir. Your task is to put the estate and family papers in order, but that soon takes a back seat to solving puzzles and escaping from monsters once you discover that step mommy had a thing for necromancy.
Unfortunately, the game is a technical disaster, plagued by bugs, glitches and crashes while in-game text is riddled with basic mistakes. If this were the only Resident Evil tribute act around, fans would have to make do with what was on offer, but it isn't, and you don't. From the bland title to the generic premise to the creaky execution, this misses the mark almost entirely. Look elsewhere.
'Submersed'(PC)
Clanking around an abandoned installation, fixing systems while being stalked by a relentless monster, it's clear that Alien Isolation was a big influence on this first-person horror adventure. There are two key differences, though: You're at the bottom of the ocean, not in deep space, and the creature trying to take chunks out of you is a particularly persistent shark.
That's a pretty good twist on a proven template but Submersed shows its low-budget indie roots in some rough edges and a truncated playing time (it runs shorter than most shark movies). Some of the scripted jump scares are a little underwhelming, too. Even so, shark games are a rarity and, while this could be improved in lots of ways, it does what it sets out to do.
'Nerved' (PS4, Switch)
Slender is the obvious source of inspiration for this, another third-person explore-a-thon. Playing as a paranormal investigator looking into the aptly named Bitterwood Forest, your case takes on a more personal urgency when your wife – and investigative partner – is taken by forces unknown. You know the drill from that point on: Stumble around the trees, creep around in derelict cabins and houses, pick up every scrap of paper to piece together the garbled backstory of the forest. The environmental details are actually pretty good, but what atmosphere they evoke gets immediately squashed by the clunky character animations and some truly awful voice acting, delivered with all the emotion of a shopping list. You can't be a genre fan without appreciating the appeal of the generic, but Nerved is strictly for the undemanding horror player.
'Stigmatized Property' (PC)
This isn't a new release – it dropped in October last year – but it's only just appeared on our radar and is interesting enough to warrant a late recommendation. For one thing, it costs only a few bucks. For another, it takes the well-worn creepy first-person exploration genre and gives it a strong J-Horror twist, as you poke around in an empty Japanese apartment looking for clues as to why nobody wants to live there. The whole thing plays out with a woozy lo-res video camera feel, and the location is realistic enough that you'll genuinely feel like you're intruding somewhere you shouldn't be. The game is proof that the limitations of indie development can work in favor of horror, rather than against it.
'The Suicide of Rachel Foster'(PC)
OK, this one is a bit of a stretch. It's not technically a horror game at all, more of a first-person drama in the vein of Gone Home and Firewatch. What it does do is riff on some classic horror tropes, so even if the supernatural flourishes never quite pay off the way Fango readers might hope, there's still plenty for the genre-savvy player to appreciate along the way.
You're playing as Nicole, a young woman returning to the hotel her parents used to own 10 years after an incident which split her family apart. Her father had an affair with Rachel Foster, a teenager the same age as Nicole, and got her pregnant. Rachel took her own life, and everything went to shit for everyone else. It's up to you to piece together the details behind the tragedy and find some measure of closure.
For horror nuts, the obvious draw is the rather overt nods to The Shining, from the eerily empty hotel with its patterned carpets and lobby diorama, to your only contact with the outside world via an antique radio set which has Irving, a FEMA agent who may be more than he seems, on the other end.
More than Stephen King's original novel and Kubrick's chilly adaptation, The Suicide of Rachel Foster feels like a kindred spirit (no pun intended) to Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep and The Haunting of Hill House, in the way it uses a sense of isolation, sinister moods and the prospect of the supernatural to explore painfully real trauma. Recommended.
Could we return to 'Silent Hill' … twice?
Keep a giant-sized pinch of salt to hand as we're firmly in rumor territory here, but after unceremoniously dumping Silent Hills, the continuation of the legendary horror franchise from Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro, in 2015, Konami may finally be getting back into the ash-and-slash business. The word is that two potential Silent Hill projects are under consideration, one that would be a "soft reboot" of the series and one that would be an episodic project in the style of Bandai Namco's "Dark Pictures Anthology." Konami responded to the rumor by commenting to games site Eurogamer that "we cannot share anything at this point, but we are listening to customer feedback and considering ways to provide the next title."
Ninja Theory doubles down on psychological horror
British developer Ninja Theory, most recently known for the award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, has announced a new "experimental" game called Project: MARA. Just as Hellblade was praised for its depiction of mental illness, albeit through the eyes of a female Viking warrior, so this new game will continue to explore similar terrain. The exact nature of the game is still a mystery, but Ninja Theory promises "a real-world and grounded representation of mental terror" inspired by "real lived experience accounts and in-depth research," which will hopefully result in a "new storytelling medium." The teaser trailer doesn't offer a whole lot more, but it looks promising.
Haunted PS1 project offers mini chunks of retro horror
It can't have escaped your attention that lots of indie horror games are riffing on the 1990s right now, but few are doing it with the same eclectic glee as the Haunted PS1 community. This collective of home-brew coders has put together a virtual "demo disc" containing 17 horror experiences that look, sound and play as if they belong on a cursed version of Sony's original PlayStation. It's free to download, and half the fun is seeing what bizarre treats await inside. None of them are straight-forward Resident Evil tributes, so if you're in the mood for a grab bag of oddball throwback weirdness, give it a shot.
Interactive Indonesian horror drives 'Pulang Insanity'
I'll be honest – I'm not entirely sure I understand what's happening in Indonesian horror game Pulsang Insanity. The story follows a man, Rudy, who escapes from poverty by performing the "Pesugihan" ritual that grants instant riches but requires a human soul every three months by way of payment. This bum deal seems to have something to do with the disappearance of Rudy's daughter, which is where the demo currently available on Steam kicks in. Rudy's ill-gotten mansion is nicely presented in the demo, and the way you must click on doors and drawers and push or pull them with the mouse suggests Amnesia-style physics puzzling will be involved. The fleeting glimpses of gray-faced specters are very welcome, too. Who knows where all this is leading, or when the finished game will be released, but it promises to be something different either way.
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'Death of Rose' puts character first
Currently due for release later in March, Death of Rose takes a familiar horror gaming scenario and uses it to offer character-based adventuring. You'll be playing as Scott, an amateur ghost hunter who heads into an abandoned school rumored to have been the site of occult practices. Along for the ride is his best friend, Beth. Apparently, what happens during the game will either "cultivate or destroy" their relationship, depending on your actions and choices. What's particularly promising about this one is that it marks the first solo development project from Artur Łączkowski, formerly of Bloober Team, the studio behind Layers of Fear and Blair Witch. As you would expect with that pedigree, the game looks and sounds great, with the trailer offering glimpses of detailed environments, realistic animation and voice acting that sounds like two friends talking. Color us interested.
Horror gets strategic in 'Othercide'
It's rare that a horror game breaks out of the expected forms, so news of a tactical strategy RPG involving demons and cosmic terror gets our attention. Othercide will see you managing a secret order of ass-kicking warriors known as the Daughters as they engage the forces of evil, represented by monstrous Others and something known only as The Suffering, in a series of battles. Think XCOM with sci-fi swapped for horror and you're in the right ballpark. It's due on PC, PS4 and Xbox One in the summer.
'Pony Island' creator returns with 'Inscryption'
Daniel Mullins is a game designer known for gleefully trampling boundaries. His Pony Island game starts as a retro platform game about cute horses and morphs into a nightmarish meta-textual ordeal in which Satan himself takes over your computer. So, who knows what the hell to expect from his upcoming title, Inscryption? All we know is that Mullins says it's a "narrative focused, card-based odyssey that blends the deck-building rogue-like, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie." We'll find out what all those words mean next year.
'Dark Souls' meets 'Dead Space' in 'Hellpoint'
It's all gone a bit to shit on the Irid Novo space station. What was once billed as a beacon of human achievement is now a derelict husk, haunted by interdimensional monstrosities. As an artificial lifeform – "organically printed" according to the game lore – you get to try and put things right, either solo or with a friend. Hack, duck, block and slash gameplay married to esoteric science fiction and Lovecraft concepts, basically, and if that doesn't get your juices boiling, then there's a free sequel chapter to download and try right now. The full gamelaunches in April.
Czech horror 'Someday You'll Return' is deeper than you think
So, you're a father, searching for his missing daughter in a spooky forest and … hey, don't keep scrolling! OK, that's not the most original starting point for a horror game, but by all accounts, Someday You'll Return offers more than the usual torchlit searching. For one thing, the location is based on a real Czech forest. For another, there's crafting and alchemy, intricate inventory puzzles, and karma system, as well as simulated madness. It certainly doesn't look like the work of just two people, but developers Jan Kavan and Lukas Medek have been polishing this thing for years and it shows. Look out for it on PC in April, with console versions to follow.
PS4 and Xbox wake up to 'Daymare'
One of the first – and best – tributes to classic Resident Evil games was indie hit Daymare in 1998, which came out last year on PC and helped to kick-start the current survival horror revival. Now, console players will get to see what the fuss was about as the game is confirmed for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with a late April release planned.
2012 horror 'Anna' spawns next-gen anthology series
Did you play the 2012 horror game Anna? Had you given up waiting for a sequel? Well, eight years later, Italian developer Dreampainters has announced that it's returning to the series – or at least the world it takes place in – for an episodic gaming anthology called "Anna's Songs," launching later this year for PC and next gen consoles. The first title in the series will be called Nascence, and follows a man called Thomas who has been sent to find the ashes of a witch and eradicate the cult that has grown up around them. The trailer has none of that and mostly just shows off the admittedly lovely environments.
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Business leaders from the car retail sector have been taking to email and social media to reassure their members of staff and customers of their actions amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Hendy Group chief executive, Paul Hendy, took to Twitter to reach out to the group's "valued customers" and the communities it serves to offer help and reassurance in a video presentation posted yesterday (March 18).
While Hendy asked customers not to be offended by the AM100 business's decision to cease all handshakes, he said that it was "business as usual".
He highlighted the efforts that it was taking to ensure the health of its staff and customers and the role that online platforms, video vehicle tours and delivery and collection services would play for the business in the weeks and months ahead.
Despite the precautions, Hendy also said that he and the business were ready to play a vital role in supporting local community members as and when they could.
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Gupta said that rigorous hygiene protocols had been put in place, which included the through cleaning of vehicles in for service or repair work at its aftersales facilities.
Like Hendy, Gupta said that test drives could still be facilitated from customer's home, meanwhile, and he urged employees to consider the use of video to offer customers remote sales and aftersales guidance.
In his email, Gupta told Marshall employees: "With over 110 years of history, at Marshall we are determined to ensure that in these uncertain times, we continue to provide our customers with the exemplary levels of service they have come to expect whilst responding appropriately to the evolving situation.
"We are continuing to monitor the situation closely and will continue to evolve our plans as the situation develops.
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Auto Trader will suffer April losses of up to £7 million in a bid to help car retailers mitigate the impact of coronavirus by axing its fees for next month and deferring March payments for 30 days.
The online automotive classified advertising specialist revealed details of its measures in an unscheduled company update issued via the London Stock Exchange this morning (March 19), stating that the move would result in an operating loss of between £6 million and £7m next month.
Auto Trader said that, in light of the "unprecedented levels of uncertainty" facing the UK car retailing market, it had "chosen to act in what we believe is a responsible way to protect our customers", which it described as key stakeholders in its business.
It said that it would waive its advertising package charges during April and allow our customers to defer payment of their March costs by 30 days, adding: "We have chosen this approach not in response to immediate pressures on our business, but rather to continue to support an industry that we have supported for the past 40 years, and one which has supported us."
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Pendragon delivered a £117.4m after tax loss in 2019 with a grim H1 wiping out a return to profitability in the second half of the year. Group revenues rose 2.6% to £4.5bn.
The company said it is closely monitoring Covid-19 and so far it has seen minimal impact but it was "hard to predict with any certainty" what might happen.
During the year the company restructured its used car supermarket business, closing 22 Car Stores and a preparation centre in H2. A second preparation was subsequently closed following a review of capacity.
It saw a 2% fall in sales volumes in its Car Stores to 27,866 units. Operating losses were -£25.2m in 2019 compared to -£11.9m in 2018, largely due to a reduction in stock levels and a decline in used car values.
In its franchised business it made an operating profit of £13m in 2019 compared to £53m a year earlier. As with Car Stores, it improved its performance in the second half. The group stressed that the franchised business will remain an important part of the business.
During the year it sold or disposed of six Jaguar Land Rover sites and closed six Vauxhall businesses as the Griffin restructured its network…
Imperial Cars adds 17th site with Birmingham used car dealership - AM Online
Imperial Cars has opened the doors at its 17th used car retail site with the completion of a new showroom facility in Birmingham.
The top ID50 car supermarket group's new dealership on Tyburn Road, just to the north-east of the city centre, offers a choice of 100 pre-owned models and has created 20 new jobs for the West Midlands area.
The Birmingham site is Imperial Cars' 17th dealership in the UK and the company's third in the West Midlands, with the others in Tamworth and Halesowen, both of which opened within the past 12 months.
In October last year the business also added a 10.8-acre vehicle preparation facility in Bristol, which will aim to prepare 3,500 used vehicles for sale each year.
Full servicing and aftersales facilities will launch at the new Birmingham site in early April to complement the sales operation which is now in full operation…
Charles Hurst Toyota raise £54,496 for Action Cancer - AM Online
Lookers' Charles Hurst Toyota has raised a total of £54,496 through a series of charity events for Action Cancer.
As a result of their ongoing partnership with the charity, the AM100 group's Charles Hurst division have raised funds that will support life-saving breast cancer services in Northern Ireland.
The division, which has Toyota dealerships in Newtownabbey, Dundonald and Belfast, has so far donated two cars to the charity for two raffles and plan on donating a new Toyota Yaris this year as part of the ongoing partnership.
The news of the total raised from the fundraiser follows shortly after Lookers presented an award marking 45 years of service from George Currie in its Northern Ireland Charles Hurst dealerships.
Charles Hurst also appointed Alan Thompson as head of business at Jaguar and Land Rover base in Belfast last year (2019).
Based in Northern Ireland, Charles Hurst sell new and used cars, vans and motorcycles and offer car finance, service assistance, repairs and insurance.
Action Cancer is Northern Ireland's local cancer charity that supports local people through cancer awareness, prevention, detection and support.
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Home News Should the 'Nutritionist' title be legally protected in the UK?
Should the 'Nutritionist' title be legally protected in the UK?
Food for thought and - think before you sign – the current e-Petition
Content Sections
● The right to be heard
● What's in a term?
● Back to the petition…
● ANH-Intl's view
● Our vote goes to….
● Facebook practitioner discussion group
By Meleni Aldridge, executive coordinator and CNHC registered nutritional therapist
In December 2016, 22-year-old dietetics student Harriet Smith, launched a UK e-Petition calling for the title of 'Nutritionist' to be legally protected. Harriet is one of three young trainee dietitians advocating, that, "Dietitians are the only qualified (and legally regulated) health care professionals that can assess, diagnose and treat dietary related medical conditions".
Citing a lack of regulation, which means that, "…anyone can set up and practice as a nutritionist/nutritional therapist", the petitioner and her supporters are asking the UK Government to, "…take action to prevent unqualified people from potentially putting people's health at risk". Whilst the e-Petition text seems innocuous enough on the surface — relevant even — the devil, as always, is in the detail. The use of the words "evidence based advice" at the end of the text signposts a potentially less innocuous motive and agenda behind this petition.
The petitioner Harriet Smith is a member of a band of three trainee dietitians who are the creators of the website 'Fight the Fads'. They've had a lot of recent airtime in the British press – far more than might be typically justified for a trio of students. The raison d'être for the website is apparently the "debunking [of] nutritional myths & fads with science". From their extremely prolific posts, it's evident that healthy (dare we say clean…!) eating, nutritional, functional, integrative medicine-based therapists and natural health bloggers fall squarely into this definition.
When you scratch below the surface of the Fight the Fads website (as slick and beautiful as it is), you'll find a mish-mash of articles created specifically to challenge areas of nutritional science that are emerging, not yet subject to scientific consensus – and some about which it is clear the young students know very little.
Moreover, the same rhetoric we see time and time again from the skeptic movement is repeated throughout, which in our view masks any rational and objective message they may have been trying to convey. Perhaps if these young women spent as much time studying the more recent evidence base for nutritional science, as they do trying to grab headlines and posting on e-Media platforms, we could expect more accuracy and less 'old-science' in their outputs.
The right to be heard
The right to petition the Crown and Parliament to air grievances is a fundamental constitutional right in the UK. In July 2011, it became possible for UK citizens to circumvent the historically lengthy petition processes and submit an e-Petition online. Achieve 10,000 signatures and we're told you can expect a response from Parliament. Achieve 100,000 signatures and your e-Petition will be considered for debate in Parliament. The operative word here being 'considered'. Since its inception, a total of 28,129 petitions have been created, but only 50 have actually been debated in Parliament, with a further 13 awaiting debate. Some of those cast into history without a hearing number in their millions.
Whilst there are myriad ways of taking a case to the UK Parliament, e-Petitions have caught on. Not least of all because of the speed at which someone feels they can have their say, tick said grievance off their hit list, then go about their business and forget all about it. We can't deny, we're living in a time of instant gratification — and therefore desirous of instant complaint, action or retribution. Yet, at ANH-Intl, we'd argue that there isn't always sufficient information in a petition's header text to make a considered action, especially when that action may have further reaching consequences than one might have expected.
What's in a term?
In the nutritional/dietetic practitioner space, the term 'evidence-based', is often used like a slur by dietitians to denigrate nutritional therapists and practitioners using a more functional based approach to nutrition. It's a 'them and us' situation, given that the former are statutorily (state) registered under the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) — along with osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists — and the latter are voluntarily registered under the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).
The HCPC requires the therapies it regulates be evidence based and that therapeutic interventions used must be able to be shown to be demonstrably effective using suitable (conventional/mainstream) experimental designs. Whilst there exist some therapeutic interventions that are poorly evidenced (based on conventional study criteria) or un-evidenced for historic reasons in many HCPC regulated professions, there is a requirement for a reasonable evidence base for the general therapeutic approach, and a commitment to evidence based practice going forward. This is the reason why dietitians keep banging on about evidence based practice, bandying the term about like a stick to beat nutritional therapists into submission. But the scope of practice between the two disciplines can be like chalk and cheese in reality, and we feel that it's the public's right to have the freedom to choose which type of practitioner and therapeutic model that's most appropriate for them. There is also extensive clinical experience from nutritional therapy and related disciplines, including functional medicine, that demonstrates very high levels of effectiveness of the often multi-stranded therapeutic approach that generally aims to deal with the underlying causes and triggers of health dysfunction.
By contrast with the HCPC, the CNHC with whom most nutritional therapists are currently registered, is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care being the holder of an Accredited Register. Its key purpose is to act in the public interest and enable proper public accountability of the complementary therapists that it registers. This is in effect a system of voluntary regulation. Registrants with CNHC willingly come forward to be regulated, being confident in their professional standards of practice.
Both the HCPC and the CNHC have been set up with Government approval and support and both have Codes of Conduct, Complaints Procedures and require registrants to hold appropriate insurance. In both instances the public are protected. Whilst we could have a supportive and inclusive network of healthcare professionals working for the benefit of the UK public, sadly, petitions like this demonstrate there's a way to go still regarding basic professional respect and etiquette. We believe Harriett Smith's petition has made an important and potentially misleading omission by not mentioning the CNHC voluntary regulation option widely used by nutritional therapists.
Back to the petition…
There is little doubt in our minds that the petition to protect the term 'nutritionist' has been set up as an anti-natural health/nutritional therapy move with exclusion rather than inclusion at its heart. Somewhat surprisingly, support for the petition is now coming from some corners of the nutritional therapy sector itself. This has confused many practitioners who would rather see it fizzle out at the end of its 6-month term, like so many worthier petitions before it.
The petition to protect the term 'nutritionist' has much deeper implications for nutritional therapists because it goes right to the heart of the statutory or voluntary regulation question. The British Association for Applied Nutrition & Nutritional Therapy (BANT), one of the main professional associations for Nutritional therapists, is a strong advocate for gaining statutory regulation under the HCPC. The association has also taken, what might be considered by some, an unprecedented step in supporting this petition. When asked his view, BANT chair, Miguel Toribio-Mateas, had the following to say:
"'Nutritionist' is an umbrella term for us all providing nutritional recommendations and it is also a term that we as Nutritional Therapists are commonly known by the public and our clients, as is the case with dieticians and Association for Nutrition graduates. How the future registration and titles will work is still to be determined and all that BANT wants to achieve with this petition is to ensure that we are not excluded from the debate. If BANT chose to ignore the petition, this would provide ammunition to the other parties involved. In the hypothetical event that Parliament even considered debating this issue, it is paramount that the interests of BANT members be represented, and if we haven't been seen to publically support a healthy debate about this all-important matter, it would be only too easy for BANT members to be excluded from it. So far from supporting a petition for Nutritional Therapists to change their name to "Nutritionists", what we are supporting is a debate about what the different professions do so that MPs actually get a chance to understand what BANT members do daily in their jobs. With just over 6,000 signatures thus far, BANT asks members to put the 'Fight the Fads' petition in perspective."
ANH-Intl's view
We see Harriet Smith's petition as a bit of foot-stomping and tantruming by a 20-something skeptic-student who doesn't fundamentally subscribe to a natural health position. UK citizens or residents have of course the freedom to either support the petition or not.
What we urge, is that should you choose to support the petition, you do it with full consideration of where it has originated from and also what it seeks to achieve. We recognise that having a legally protected title may benefit nutritionists but the tight controls likely to be implicit with becoming an HCPC registered profession may well considerably alter the scope and nature of practice of nutritional therapy. This has been a concern for some of the osteopaths and chiropractors who have been statutorily regulated, and for herbalists who were close to securing statutory regulation two to three years ago. In our view, given that the healthcare regulation debate with regard to non-conventional therapies has been going on for over two decades, it's unlikely, though not impossible, for this petition to see the light of day in the UK Parliament. We also acknowledge and respect people's reason for supporting the petition.
Our vote goes to….
We would however like to emphasise that our own position, given the facts today, is that the present voluntary regulation option provided by the CNHC should be maintained, whether statutory regulation for nutritional therapists becomes possible or not. And that improved standards of practice should continue to be advanced and evolved, particularly with regard to the evidence base congruent with the highly personalised and functional scope of practice. The UK Government has itself acknowledged in 2011, that for some groups of workers in the health and social care sector that statutory regulation may be a disproportionate response to the level of risk posed to the public. In the same report, the UK Government expresses its view that voluntary registration can be an effective and proportionate means of ensuring public safety.
UK citizens and residents, and especially fellow nutritional therapists, the choice is yours.
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02 March 2017 at 12:35 am
NO! No protection. it's a racket. This exercise is to stop rational, open discussion/advice by the better read. RDs etc have to peddle the calories, cholesterol, RDAs, food groups etc deliberate misinfo that keeps the sheeple sickly, weak, overweight, tired, stressed and later.. unnecessarily medicated for life. How else can a 3.5T$ annual Sickness Industry flourish in just the US/
I am a student studying nutrition science with CNELM and hope to qualify as a nutrition therapist in the not too distant future. Firstly, I am a bit disturbed at the inference in your article that dietician follow evidence based interventions but nutrition therapists do not. The course I am following is ALL about evidence based practice and BANT insist on nothing else. Secondly this article completely ignores the fact that regulation is there to protect the public so that they can have confidence in choosing an appropriately qualified professional in the field but that regulation also gives more credibility to a profession, as evidenced by the CNHC being referred to around the Internet as 'quackery'. Harm has been done to people who seek nutrition advice and fall on someone who took a free online 18 hour course and consider themselves a pro in the field. It is a very interesting debate, and I would be very interested in putting the other side to Ms Aldridge's argument if you would like, in an opposing article - not hidden in a FB group, but here so that both sides can be digested by all. Let me know!
Meleni Aldridge
Hi Tiffany
Thanks so much for taking time time to reply to us. I'm especially grateful for you raising this point as it allows me to clarify further in case anyone else has read the same meaning from the article.
Contrary to how you've interpreted the piece, we are not for one minute taking the stance that dietitians are working from an evidence base and nutritional therapists are not. It's the dietetic associations globally which are making the distinction and using it to create confusion and misunderstanding for the public that they are therefore somehow more appropriately qualified than practitioners such as NTs using functional based protocols. We recognise fully that our functional based protocols are themselves evidence based, however they rely on different types of evidence.
The term 'evidence-based' as used by dieticians refers to the very narrow interpretation of evidence-based medicine as used to define approaches meeting the standards of Cochrane, NICE and other similar institutions. This involves use of the classic hierarchy of evidence, in which primary emphasis is placed on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and, even more particularly, on meta-analyses and/or systematic review of RCTs. This approach is valid for many types of intervention, but as you will know, is less than ideal for many nutritional interventions. By comparison, functional medicine approaches rely extensively on observational evidence, case reports, supporting biochemical evidence and RCT evidence when it is available and relevant. It is however then validated often by years of clinical experience. In that sense it fulfils the original concept of evidence-based medicine as defined by Sackett et al back in 1992.
Thank you for your offer, but there is really no need for "putting the other side" to my argument as we're very firmly on the same side as you — and all functional based practitioners/therapies. In fact, as an organisation, we've been deeply committed to righting the wrongs committed in the name of 'evidenced-based medicine' (EBM) since our inception in 2002 and you will find much to read of our historic work in this area on our website.
I hope this helps to clarify our position and the meaning of the text in the article, but please do come back if you've still got questions.
Meleni
Tatiana Rodriguez MSci BA http://[email protected]
Hi Meleni,
Your article was very clear. You are definitely on the side of Nutritional Therapists and on the side of EBM. I understood clearly and I am really surprised that Tiffany did not understand your clear point.
I was very concerned a few months ago when I saw this petition and some fellow nutritional therapists were signing and asking other people to sign in Facebook. When I researched the petition, I realised it was started by a young dietetics trainee that basically hates nutritional therapists and is very scared of the competition that they represent. I immediately contacted some of my colleagues to warn them about the petition they were supporting. They were obviously unaware that the petition is actually against nutritional therapists.
I understand that nutritional therapists with degrees would like the profession more regulated and the nutritionist title protected so that people doing a 6 months course cannot call themselves nutritionists. Also I understand BANTs position as it is better to be part of the argument and staying silent could look like an admission that we do not use EBM.
Thank you for bringing this issue to light so that some well qualified nutritional therapists stop supporting this bratty dietetics student.
Hi Meleni and thanks also for your reply. While I am glad that there was a misinterpretation on my part, I am still a bit confused at your distinction between the types of evidence that is used by dieticians and Nutritional therapists. I am being taught to critically evaluate evidence but to value RCTs and meta analyses above all as being at the top of hierarchical evidence as you say, but observational evidence etc has not even entered into the curriculum.
We are not really on the same side either as I am firmly in favour of statutory regulation but not at all in favour of the CNHC voluntary system as it doesn't give enough credibility to its member professions as evidenced by the fact that the URL ofquack.org.uk leads to the CHNC website and it is regularly referenced on sites like 'badscience.com' further damaging the credibility of the professions.
There are also, unfortunately, too many voluntary registers that in themselves are confusing for the public as each demand different evidence of skill: there is BANT, the AfN, and fntp among others that hold voluntary registers and reflect different and varying levels of qualification not to mention titles.
I believe the title championed now by BANT for stat reg 'functional dietician' is a stroke of genius, alligning both professions while specifying the distinction giving the profession the credibility it deserves and the public the protection it needs.
Brendan O'Brien http://[email protected]
Being a CNELM alumni myself I know what you refer to about being taught to respect the hierarchy of evidence.
I believe there is more than one reason for this:
CNELM wishes to turn out competent professionals with the skills to delve into literature on more than just a 'skimming' basis, and, who have the ability to engage public discourse by speaking the language of the current paradigm of science.
Also of course (and primarily) the skill is necessary to actually find information.
But the teaching builds to a point of explaining that NT currently does not and cannot meet these standards of evidence for every recommendation....you can't blind diets etc etc....food delivers a matrix of 'vectors' therefore can't be investigated like single agent drugs are etc etc. Therefore the profession needs to find a way to produce relevant and acceptable evidence of efficacy, but in the meantime I believe CNELM teaching recognises that we have to walk a line between using science as a guide (instead of a god), and honest reflective observational feedback based on other valid ways of seeing the world.
One possible tool becoming available to us all is Big Data, garnered from the feedback of a multitude of practicing therapists worldwide. Mechanistic reasoning is also a key tool for us however it is low down the hierarchy of evidence for medical interventions because of the potential to produce enormous harm if it turns out to be wrong. Medical history records many incidences of this happening and thus 'Medicine' is understandably wary of placing high value on it. NT's on the other hand, as I'm sure you know already, are not playing with such 'live ammo' as drugs and thus practice a naturally safer modality, thus can avail of these 'lower' levels of evidence because they make more sense to do so.
These essentially do fall under the umbrella term of 'observational data' (which is dissed by so called Evidence Based promoters) but statistical Power can be assigned to them when used within the scientifically accepted structure of Baysian maths, coupled with modern processing power that is capable of making sense out of what otherwise looks like chaos (case controls, observation guided by known mechanisms, experience, etc etc to which Melani alluded to).
My point is A: We are zeroing in on a proper way to produce real evidence about interventions that really help people and which will be acceptable to the status quo, and B: There will always be detractors and different worldviews so everyone will always have to fight their corner, if we try to avoid the stress by moving to someone else's corner then we risk giving up what we have...especially when we are so close.
By the way the ofquack.co.uk domain is owned by quack buster Andy Lewis, who set it up and redirected it's IP address to the CNHC website in a cynical (or perhaps humorous) attempt to confuse people...the very thing he claims to be working against! Whilst I personally believe that adversaries like Andy can often be our best teachers, the reality is there will always be Andy's ready to rail against what they don't like (or perhaps understand) which is of course their right! It's something NT's need to find a way to be at ease with.
Look forward to meeting you someday!
I wish that we had that much power over how the concept of evidence based medicine (EBM) was viewed! Sadly we don't. In short, it's not our distinction between types of evidence used by dieticians and NTs, it's the way the mainstream, with which the dietitians are aligned, sets that particular agenda. This debate over different interpretations of EBM and the hierarchy of evidence has been raging for over 2 decades now, and it's something that our scientific director, Rob Verkerk PhD, has been centrally involved in studying and influencing, in relation to natural health modalities. We think it might be helpful for you to read David Sackett's original paper that launched EBM (<em>JAMA</em>. 1992; 268(17): 2420-2425), a reflection paper published some 4 years later (<em>BMJ</em>. 1996; 312(7023): 71-2) that stressed the importance of clinical experience and more recent paper pointing some of the biases of EBM against patients and carers (<em>BMC Med</em>. 2015; 13: 200).
There is a strong, emerging view that in order to best inform the clinical practice of nutrition, a body of evidence including epidemiological studies, cohort studies and case control studies may provide more relevant information than RCTs (<em>Semin Oncol.</em> 2010; 37(3): 282–296). RCTs are only able to evaluate the effect of a single intervention in isolation which is at odds with how epigenetically unique individuals are exposed to foods in the real world. Accordingly, a null finding in an RCT does not preclude the likelihood of an effect in practice (<em>ibid</em>).
In final clarification on the matter of regulation, we are not anti statutory regulation and I'm not really sure how you could read this into what is written in the article. However, in our view, it's important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater and lose the route of voluntary regulation through the CNHC, because there is a valid and rational argument for keeping it. Many NTs, like the herbalists before us, will want to maintain their registration through the CNHC and not be ring-fenced with dietitians in the RD route through the HCPC. As an organisation, we have always championed informed choice and are firm believers in putting all available information in front of people so that they can make a fully informed choice. This is no different and I really don't feel there is any need for anyone to 'take sides', creating more of the 'them and us' scenario, damaging as it is, that currently exists. There is sufficient professional space for both to exist concurrently.
We think it's a very important time for debate, especially while it will be some time before any solid proposal for statutory regulation is available for scrutiny by NTs or other categories of nutritional practitioner. Among the many issues to be determined will be acceptable educational standards, training/CPD requirements, and grand-fathering of those qualified before the passage of SR.
Nutritionals and homeopathy have kept me going for some 30+ years and I have no aches pains, diseases etc. I am now 70+ , outliving all my maternal family. I was extremely ill in my 30s/40s with acute attacks of asthma. Despite doing all the doctor told me, I ended up on a nebuliser and was pretty near death. Homeopathy actually cured the asthma. The human body is made to be self healing but it needs optimal nutrition, even more so now in dealing with pollution and especially if your inheritance is not so good.
Melissa Smith
Thank you for sharing your experiences Jane. We're glad to hear how well you're doing.
Ronald Smith http://Under%20Development
These so called Dietitians are trained in the limited mainstream views of diet which in my experience is a simplistic and largely irrelevant dogma based view of Natural Health. Such petitions appear to be nothing more than a thinly disguised effort to attempt to regulate and control an area of health i.e. 'Natural Medicine' they have little understanding of, and even less training in, that is rapidly overtaking the increasingly discredited mainstream approach.
Dr. Nitsa Kiliari
Hi Meleni, I am a BANT Fellow and CNHC-registered therapist. I have a BSc and a Doctorate in Nutritional Medicine. From my position as BANT Regulatory Coordinator for Europe, I have been involved in promoting statutory regulation in Europe for Nutritional Therapists. I totally agree with you about the differences between dieticians and nutritional therapists practice. I am also convinced, based on a profound evidence-based research in the issue, that the dieticians' leadership is promoting a monopoly of nutritional advice worldwide lead by the American Academy of Dietetics. I am also aware of their official documents on how to "manage" their competitors in Nutritional advice. This aim is evident in the numerous Bills they have submitted in many states penalising nutritional advice for those without a Degree in Dietetics. If we hadn't succeed to stop these Bills from being passed as laws several times with strong action with politicians and officials today healthcare practitioners without Dietetics Degree would have been sent six months to jail for a simple nutritional advice to a patient, as the Bill provided. The big problem is that in the last few years they are collecting all nutrition titles for themselves. I am sure you have noticed that all dieticians have arbitrarily added the word "nutritionist" to their titles. They all now call themselves "Dietician-Nutritionist" and all their courses are renamed to Dietetics and Nutrition. The are also, again arbitrarily, categorising all nutritionists under the Dietetics categories, an action which according to the law only the House of Representatives is allowed to do, and in some countries they publish their arbitrary decisions in official documents! It seems that if we don't act we will find ourselves 'outside' not being able to use the term "NUTRITION" and "FUNCTIONAL" and so on. I believe BANT knows what is doing and we should trust the Council as it has proved until now that follows a wise and highly effective policy.
Dear Dr Kiliari
Thank you so much for your considered response. We totally concur with your views on the dietitians' attempt to monopolise the delivery of nutritional therapies. Our sister organisation, ANH-USA, has been at the forefront of preventing the rights of practitioners of nutrition (non-registered dietitians) outside the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in the US from being usurped by registered dietitians at the state and national level.
So while we fully recognise the desire among nutritional therapists to stand firmly together and be legally recognised by statute, our piece was simply drawing attention to our concern over with whom we share platforms. Our organisation has always been a leading proponent for informed choice. We had been asked by a number of practitioners to clarify this particular situation as they were confused. As an organisation we always feel that people should be given as much information as available in order for informed decisions to be made. The 'Fight the Fads' platform set up by three student dietitians who seemingly have an agenda that is at odds with our professional stance, in our view, is potentially an imperfect platform for our own profession if it is to be shared with those who support the very same values as the US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. But that is our view, it's completely up to individual practitioners to make their own decision about what is right for them with the available information. I have been a BANT member for a long time now, so have also put my trust in the various councils that have been in place through the years, and I have every intention of continuing to do so.
Thank you very much for your response Melleni. One thing is for sure we are all on the same side fighting for a healthier world!
Have a lovely weekend
Catherine Nile http://[email protected]
Hi It looks as though there is a (counter) petition for people against further regualation to sign - hunted but unable to find a link. Is there one?
Hi Catherine, sorry, we've looked too and can't find one either. If one comes to light, we'll let you know. Best, Meleni
carys
I think the point in the petition is that as a nutritionist working in the food industry not having protection of our title causes us troubles with the public and people we work with understanding what we do. I've had a colleague referring to Dietitians as 'the one above a nutritionist' which I then had to correct her to say that instead of doing a clinical year on top of my BSc in Human Nutrition I instead did an MSc in something relevant to the career path I chose. When people read that 'Dietitians are the only legally protected title' and 'anyone can call themselves a nutritionist' this often leads the public and employers thinking that nutritionists are less qualified even if their education was more geared towards the career they're in. Personally I do not want to have to go back to University for another 1-2 years just to do clinical training so that I can have my title protected when I would prefer to continue doing the professional doctorate that I am currently doing which is geared towards the food industry that I am in. Unfortunately doing the clinical training in dietetics would make me more employable as many food companies are requesting that their nutritionists are registered as a dietitian despite the job not requiring any clinical elements - I believe this to be a lack of understanding of the titles, particularly as there can be nutritionist bashing coming from some dietitians. I would prefer that as a profession there was less bashing of each other and more respecting differences and trying to make it clearer what these differences are so that people can choose the right person for the skills that are required. Nutritionists are caught in the middle a bit and it is problematic that our title is used as umbrella term as there are certain professions (eg. food industry, public health, research) that our training makes us specialised in but there is little understanding of this. Furthermore, I would not call myself a Nutritional Therapist nor a Dietitian (even if it was legal to!) because I've focused my education on a population level/food science/regulatory and labelling and not one on one consulting people on their individual diets. Dietitians and NTs can both call themselves Nutritionists leaving us will very little scope to demonstrate where our strengths are which is why this petition became necessary.
Thanks for your comments Carys.
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