About Us

Your trusted gateway to evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

What Is NED?

The Nutrition Evidence Database (NED) is your go-to platform for evidence-based personalised nutrition information. NED provides you with easy access to high quality, published human studies in nutrition and lifestyle medicine to support your evidence based decision making designed by and for healthcare professionals.

Now updated, NED 2.0 provides a trusted, comprehensive, and easy-to-navigate resource for nutrition practitioners, researchers, academics, and students.

Whether you're in clinical practice, education, or research, NED is designed to support your work with up-to-date, high-quality evidence that informs real-world decision-making.

Subscribe to our free monthly alerts to receive expert-selected research highlights and stay informed on the latest developments in nutrition science.

Why Choose NED?

NED is the go-to platform for evidence-based personalised nutrition. Here's why:

• Exclusive Focus on Human Research: NED curates only high-quality human studies relevant to nutrition and lifestyle medicine—no animal or cell studies—ensuring clinical relevance for professionals across disciplines.
• Curated Content and Expert Insight: Selected studies are enhanced with:
  • Plain language summaries for quick understanding
  • Expert reviews offering professional insight, clinical applications, and take-home messages
  • Thematic NED Journals featuring the latest release expert reviews
• Unique Clinical Filtering: Use NED’s advanced filters to search research by clinical imbalances and modifiable lifestyle factors, making it easier to apply evidence to individualised care. (Instructional videos coming soon.)
• Powerful Search Tools:
  • Standard and advanced search options
  • AI-powered ‘Ask AI’ searches based solely on NED content
  • Save searches, bookmark articles, and share findings with patients or peers

Trusted, independent, peer reviewed

NED is overseen by an independent Editorial Board of academics and clinicians in nutrition and lifestyle medicine. This ensures the integrity, scientific rigour, and relevance of all content and features on the platform.

All Expert Reviews are:

• Written by qualified professionals (Master’s and Doctorate level)
• Peer-reviewed by members of the Editorial Board
• Free to read and featured in thematic journals

Plain language summaries are initially generated using AI, then reviewed and validated by expert indexers who also categorise articles for enhanced filtering.

Responsible Use of AI

NED uses AI responsibly to enhance functionality—not to replace expert judgement.

• Ask AI searches draw only from peer-reviewed articles on NED and should be used with critical thinking.
• AI-generated plain language summaries are reviewed for accuracy before publication.
• Expert Reviews are written and peer-reviewed by qualified humans; AI is used only for proofreading, where declared.

We welcome user feedback to ensure quality—please report any inaccuracies to: [email protected].

Powered by BANT and Industry Partners

NED is owned and operated by the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT), the leading professional body for Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners in one-to-one clinical practice. Additional support is provided by industry partners through ethical sponsorship and advertising. This financial support sustains and enhances the platform without compromising its independence or editorial standards.

Stay Connected

NED 2.0 is continuously evolving to meet the needs of practitioners and researchers.

• For general enquiries or feedback, contact: [email protected]
• Interested in supporting NED? Contact NED Managing Editor Clare Grundel at [email protected] for sponsorship opportunities and bespoke packages.

Explore NED 2.0 today – and elevate your practice with evidence you can trust.