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Council Members Profiles
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Lynne Brown
Lynne obtained a Bachelor of Science Honours degree from the University of Natal Pietermaritzburg in 1977 and an
Education Diploma the following year. While raising her family she spent most of her working life teaching Mathematics and Physical Science at various high schools. Disillusionment with the continual symptomatic treatment of illness, especially allergies in members of her family, sent her on totally new career path. Her research into natural remedies and getting to the cause of illness culminated in a Diploma in Clinical Nutrition from Australia, which she obtained in 2005. Lynne lives on a farm outside of Somerset East in the Eastern Cape from where she runs a small private practice.
She gives talks in the Eastern Cape and writes for various publications and newspapers.
She enjoys community work and sits on a Board for a Children’s Home as health and nutrition adviser. On the farm she grows organic vegetables and produces free-range chickens and eggs for friends and family.
Lynne has been a Council Member since SAANT was officially inaugurated in August 2007. She has held the position of Membership Office Bearer since 2008.
Heidi du Preez
Heidi du Preez is a Professional Natural Scientist, who obtained her masters degree (M.Sc. Agric) in Food Science. She graduated through the University of Pretoria and post-graduated through the University of the Free State in 1995. Heidi worked for six years as a food scientist within the food industry.
As a food scientist with a personal interest in health and nutrition, Heidi started to study and specialise in natural health while living in the UK for three years between 1997 and 2000. During this time she healed herself from Candidiasis through extensive research and the diligent following of specific best nutritional practices. Heidi learnt the value of balanced wholefood nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. It is now her passion to share this knowledge with others.
Heidi is currently specialising in Nutritional Therapy. She is studying towards a BSc-degree in Nutritional Medicine. She has obtained a diploma in Nutrition and also lectured in Nutrition at a Health and Beauty Institute. Heidi holds a diploma in Colon Hydrotherapy and certificates in Iridology and Massage Therapy.
Heidi has experience in lecturing post-graduate students and in the compilation and presentation of workshops, seminars and lectures. She has written several publications on scientific and general matters. She currently writes for The South African Journal of Natural Medicine and serves on the panel of experts. Heidi is the author of the health recipe book Naturally Nutritious.
Heidi served on the Interim Committee, August 2006 to August 2007, and has been a Council Member since SAANT was officially inaugurated in August 2007. She has held the position of Legal Office Bearer since 2007.
Helen Hull
Helen became interested in Nutritional Therapy in the early 1980s when her child had asthma, eczema and, at age 7, developed insulin-dependent diabetes. She was a member of the Hyperactive Children’s Support Group and other organisations involved in Nutritional and Complementary Health. In 1997 Helen completed the 3-year Nutritional Therapy Diploma Course at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition ( ION ) founded by Patrick Holford. Her dissertation was titled Juvenile-Onset Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus – A Nutritional Strategy to Limit or Prevent Complications.
Helen practiced as a Nutritional Therapist in Surrey, UK, until moving to Cape Town in 2000. In South Africa she has been in private practice and gives talks.
In 2006 Helen and other UK-trained Nutritional Therapists came together to discuss forming an association for the regulation and promotion of Nutritional Therapy in South Africa.
Helen strongly believes that Nutritional Therapy should be recognised as a cornerstone of health and as an important treatment and preventative health discipline and that Nutritional Therapists should be professional, well-trained health practitioners.
Helen served on the Interim Committee, August 2006 to August 2007, and has been a Council Member since SAANT was officially inaugurated in August 2007. She has held the position of Chairperson since 2008.
Hannah Kaye
Hannah Kaye is a qualified nutritional therapist and obtained her BSc (hons) in Nutritional Therapy through the British College of Nutrition and Health and Greenwich University in London. She also has a degree in Journalism through Rhodes University. Prior to moving back to South Africa in 2009, Hannah ran a private practice in London as well as worked with the renowned Dr Dirk Budka at The Hale Clinic.
Hannah is passionate in her belief that a functional approach to health, good nutrition, and a more natural way of living can improve the quality of life of everyone. She treats all areas of health with a special interest in women's health and child nutrition.
Hannah joined the SAANT Council in 2009, holding the position of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Office Bearer. She is committed to ensuring that the SAANT CPD programme addresses the ultimate objective of the philosophy of continuing professional development: “the acquisition of new, current knowledge and measurable professional skills, with an end benefit to the patient or client”.
Terry Owen-Jones
Terry has a BSc (Med) Honours degree from the University of Cape Town. She spent ten years working in medical research in the area of cardiovascular biology specifically cardiovascular implant devices.
Her personal experiences with the benefit of detoxification programs deepened her interest in nutrition and she began studying towards a further degree in Nutritional Therapy in 2010. Her own struggle with long distance learning lead to her involvement as a student Council member of SAANT where she hopes to empower herself and others.
Terry is first and foremost a mother. She is passionate about yoga, all things ecological and simplicity..
Beatrice Rabkin
Beatrice's first interest was in indigenous herbal medicine, this was in the late 70s; she decided however that it would be in her interest to have some understanding of allopathic medicine first, which led her to becoming a pharmacist. Shortly after having completed this course, she left South Africa for the US, where she branched off into something quite different, cooking.
During her time working as a pharmacist at Red Cross hospital she was appalled at the enormous number of drugs being administered to children and the total disregard for their diets. This and the fact that nutritional therapy is not esoteric or only for the rich, or well educated persuaded her that this was her next career move.
After doing a few short courses in Nutrition, including one with a college that disappeared, she started a correspondence course, Diploma in Nutritional medicine in 2006, with The Foundation for International Education and Training (Plaskett International College). Beatrice feels passionate about the need for Nutritional education especially amongst obese and depressed children and teenagers. Her own children now 19 and 18, have used homoeopathy, acupuncture and massage therapy for all childhood physiological conditions including asthma.
She has done training seminars with primary school teachers and talked to parents at a primary school about their children's nutrition.
She believes that an organisation such as SAANT is vital to monitor the professional status of Nutritional Therapists and to lobby for changes in legislation which will help to change the tide of chronic disease epidemics in South Africa.
Beatrice has been on the Council since 2008. She is currently on Council, involved with Training.