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 is a founding Council member of SAANT, the Membership Secretary since 2009, as well as the Regional coordinator for the Eastern Cape.

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 is a founding Council member of SAANT, and 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 for Continuing Professional Development (CPD).  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”.

Carol Murrell

Carol is a qualified nutritional therapist who trained at the Centre for Nutrition & Lifestyle Management (CNELM) in the UK, a leading provider of nutritional therapy courses in Europe. A keen runner and cyclist, Carol has a long-held passion for the benefits of well-chosen nutrition and believes education is fundamental to maximising and sustaining wellness within all levels of the community. Her areas of special interest include women’s health, disordered eating and cancer care.

She is also a qualified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner and uses these powerful techniques to help individuals effect change in their lives. Carol is a regular contributor to The SA Journal of Natural Medicine and sits on their panel of experts. She is a professional member of the South African Association of Nutritional Therapists (SAANT) and practises in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town

Carol was co-opted to SAANT Council at the end of February 2008 and currently holds the position for Training for 2009.

Adele Pelteret

Adele studied for her Graduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition, through the International Nutritional Academy of Australian via correspondence for 5 years and has been practicing as a Nutritional & Lifestyle Consultant for the last 4 years. She completed her studies in 2005, passing her exams with distinction.

Adele has a private practice in Pinelands, Cape Town, and does house and hospital calls for those patients who are bed-ridden or unable to get to her. She helps to educate and re-educate people with regards to health through nutritional & lifestyle changes. She uses nutritional therapy & nutritional “medicine” as a treatment, as well as symptom management, for a wide range of disorders, ailments, illnesses & diseases. 

Adele is a qualified teacher holding a 4 year Higher Diploma in Education, and being drawn to children and education, one of her special interests now, is paediatric health. She is very involved with school education talks. She has developed a Wholistic Nutrition Programme for Schools (based on research from six other countries) which looks at assisting in changing the negative nutritional influences in schools by starting with a “Tuckshop Health Makeover”!

Adele hosts small to medium business Corporate Health days, breakfasts and talks. She writes articles for various websites and magazines, and is a member of The Family Health Network and the South African Nutrition Society. 

Adele is a founding Council member of SAANT, originally holding the position of Secretary. She was the Vice Chairperson in 2008 and has been responsible for National PR and Marketing since 2008.

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, holding the position of Secretary for SAANT. She is currently on Council, involved with Training.

Katherine Tudsbury

Katherine Tudsbury is a second year student with Thames Valley University, studying towards her BSc in Nutritional Therapy. She has always had an interest in nutrition and complementary therapies and believes that health and wellbeing can be achieved through diet and lifestyle changes. She is a Student Member of SAANT and was elected to Council October 2009.