I checked their Food Fact Sheets. It ain't about food, it ain't facts, but it is certainly just a sheet. There's even a notice at the bottom of the document:
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This Food Factsheet is a public service of The British Dietetic Association (BDA) intended for information only. It is not a substitute for proper medical diagnosis or dietary advice given by a dietitian. If you need to see a dietitian, visit your GP for a referral or: www.freelancedietitians.org for a private dietitian. To check your dietitian is registered check www.hcpc-uk.org This Food Fact Sheet and others are available to download free of charge at www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts
Written by Elaine Hibbert Jones, Dietitian on behalf of the BDA Specialist Group Dietitians Management Education Group (DMEG) and Gill Regan on behalf of the DMEG paeds sub-group. The information sources used to develop this fact sheet are available at www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts © BDA July 2014. Review date July 2017. Version 7
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Here's the hilarious bit, also found at the address above:
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The Fact Sheets are for information only: they are not a substitute for proper medical diagnosis or dietary advice given by a dietitian.
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That's what's called a "disclaimer". Normally, a disclaimer is intended to warn the reader. However in this particular case, it actually reinforces the thing said which this disclaimer is intended to warn about. The thing said was said by a dietician (
Written by Elaine Hibbert Jones, Dietician), and the disclaimer warns that the reader should rely on a dietician (
not a substitute for...dietary advice given by a dietician). See? It's not a genuine disclaimer.
Here's an even more hilarious bit, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclaimer
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Under UK law, the validity of disclaimers is significantly limited by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. By virtue of the Act, a business cannot use a contract term or a notice to exclude or restrict its liability for negligence causing death or personal injury. In the case of other loss or damage, a disclaimer will only be effective so long as it is reasonable in all the circumstances.
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The BDA uses such a disclaimer, as I demonstrated above. But that doesn't stop the BDA from pointing out how dangerous the doctor's advice is.
It seems to me those dieticians are trying to usurp the doctor's role. After all, they are "alarmed" by what a doctor said/did, and point out just how wrong that doc is, all according to their own interpretation of what's wrong and what's right. Well, let us refer to that disclaimer and point out that everything that comes from the British Dietetic Association is "not a substitute for proper medical diagnosis".
Anybody in the UK wanna make a complaint about the BDA for their disclaimer?