Jane Philpott MA (Oxon), MSc, PhD, is a qualified Dietary Educator and Analyst. Jane spent 22 years researching and working on the global production of food, 13 years of which were as a senior R&D manager in industry, before beginning her training to degree level as a Nutritional Therapist. She is also a qualified cookery teacher, having trained at the School of Natural Cookery with Montse Bradford, who is internationally renowned for her teaching on the healing power of food. |  Copyright Bristol News and Media Limited |
Jane provides training and consultancy on nutrition and healthier catering for local authorities in the UK. Last year she undertook a collaborative project on Healthier Children's Menus with the local councils and the NHS Primary Care Trust in Somerset, which was funded by the Food Standards Agency. The aim was to work with independent catering businesses to improve the nutritional quality of food served to children.
Jane was also responsible for implementing an in-house hot lunch service (see case study on School Food Trust web-site) in a Somerset County Council primary school so has considerable expertise in children's nutrition, school food standards, food hygiene legislation and other aspects of setting up and running a catering business.
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She also offers personal consultations and provides confidential, professional expertise and advice on how to transform health and well-being through implementing changes to diet and lifestyle.
Jane writes for the Nutrition Practitioner Journal, for Just4Food Magazine and other publications in the field of health and healing such as Caduceus magazine, and for Somerset's Western Gazette. She is working towards a further degree in Nutritional Therapy at the Centre for Nutrition Education and Lifestyle Management in Berkshire, which is accredited by Middlesex University and BANT (British Association of Nutritional Therapists).
Jane is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is a provider of mental health, learning disability and community health services in Somerset.
She is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Somerset Care, which is a leading provider of care homes and services in the southern counties of England.
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