Medical Nutrition Education for Healthcare Professionals

Supporting Heart Health with Lifestyle Medicine (1 CME Point)

Date: 7:00 pm Monday 23rd Feb 2026

This engaging webinar, presented by Alice Benskin, explores the vital role of lifestyle medicine in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease. Alice will introduce the core principles of lifestyle medicine and outline how evidence-based lifestyle interventions can significantly improve heart health outcomes.

The session provides an overview of cardiovascular disease and its key risk factors, before examining how lifestyle factors—including nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, tobacco use, and social connection—impact cardiovascular health. Drawing on current research and clinical evidence, Alice will highlight the effectiveness of lifestyle-based approaches for both the prevention and treatment of heart disease.

Participants will also be guided through practical strategies for improving heart health, supported by a real-world case study to demonstrate how lifestyle medicine principles can be applied in practice.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Define lifestyle medicine and explain its role in supporting cardiovascular health

  • Identify major lifestyle-related risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease

  • Describe evidence-based lifestyle interventions for the prevention and management of heart disease

  • Apply practical lifestyle strategies to support and improve heart health in real-world settings

Date: 7:00 pm Monday 23rd Feb 2026

Webinar Speakers:

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.

Alice Elizabeth Benskin

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.

Alice Benskin

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.

Im a registered nutritionist (AfN) and also a member of the BPS, with qualifications in both nutrition (MSc, BSc (Hons) ) and psychology (MSc). I have over a decade of experience spanning nutrition education, research, mental health, and advocacy. I currently serve as Senior Nutritionist and Nutrition Education Lead at Nutritank, and support NHS patients through the National Diabetes Prevention Programme and other public health initiatives. I’m a member of the BDA, also, and presently doing my dietetics trainings to gain HCPC registration.

My work includes collaborations with organisations such as the WHO “Fides” programme, BMJ Nutrition (as a peer reviewer), and the Mind Health for Medical Students charity, where I serve as clinical nutrition lead. I’m also the founder of Nutrition United, a global network addressing health inequities through collaborative working amongst nutrition professionals.

Beyond my professional life, I’m a survivor of the A.C.E. programme—a fundamentalist Christian cult—and I advocate for greater awareness of the impacts of religious trauma, particularly on women. I’m passionate about empowering others, particularly women and marginalised communities, to have equitable access to healthcare and education. Most recently I co founded an NGO, The Ember Foundation, advocating for gender equality and education for Afghan girls impacted by the gender apartheid invoked by the Taliban regime.

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