'''''Nutritionist'''''s

[Guest guest]

Hi :

I realize I ought to feel more 'charitable', but no matter I cannot

manage it.

Most (not quite all) of the people I have met who call themselves

nutritionists are incredibly ignorant about even elementary aspects

of nutrition. I doubt your nutritionist associate was trying to

introduce things gradually. I think it highly likely that, quite the

contrary, based on her nutrition education she felt the dish she was

serving was the epitome of healthy food - why else would she use it

as her example?

A couple of years ago I attended a local drugstore seminar on

nutrition at which the invited speaker, introduced as a qualified

nutritionist, recommended coconut as a regular part of the diet.

When someone asked " doesn't it contain a lot of saturated fat? " her

reply was (I swear this is what she said): " but it comes from plants

so how could it possibly be harmful? " . I then pointed out that all

kinds of wild berries come from plants and will kill you stone dead.

This, apparently, had escaped her notice.

But this is the kind of drivel that is being taught in many of the

places '''''nutritionist'''''s are 'educated' these days. You take

yer life in yer hands if you pay attention to them. But don't get me

started on the '''education''' system here!!! It is not only the

education system for nutritionists that that needs to be torn down

and started over, here at least.

Rodney.

--- In , " kayellr " <karenlruss@y...>

wrote:

>

> This is very frustrating. As an example of how this can be

> perpetuated in even the well meaning I offer the following story.

>

> One of my coworkers is severely overweight (probably 150 lbs or more

> overweight). She has recently had a long bout of health problems

> because of weight (age 35) including surgery and culminating a month

> ago in a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes among other problems. She is

> under strict doctor orders to get weight under control, and she is

> struggling to do so with the standard " portion control " . Another

> coworker is a nutritionist, who gives nutrition information to the

> public as part of her job.

>

> The nutritionist brought in a special " low calorie, healthy " treat

for

> many of us in the office to sample last week, especially the

coworker

> with diabetes. Her goal was largely to show her how to change her

> diet. Thank heavens I was left out - " I know you're watching

> calories, but I didn't offer it since you're vegetarian " Whew

>

> The low cal treat. Spaghetti squash lasagne - except that

EVERYTHING

> except the spaghetti squash looked packed full of saturated fat -

> greasy looking ground beef, wads of yellow cheese. Ick.

>

> Later I asked nutritionist why she didn't bring something else as an

> example. She said that most people can't and won't change their

diet

> in the ways I have, that " IT'S TOO EXTREME " so you have to show them

> how to make little changes, gradually. Yet she never talked to our

cw

> about more veg, less fat, anything, never gave her the oppurtunity

to

> CHOOSE for herself from REAL INFORMATION, at what is probably the

most

> motivated time of her life. She just ASSUMED that the changes would

> be too extreme to bear.

>

> And none of them seem to notice that my 300 to 350 calorie lunch

> almost fills a grocery sack to overflowing. Or when they do, it's

> jokes about how I'm possibly going to eat it all. The connection

> between my being very comfortably full and not having eaten a pile

of

> garbage and calories escapes them all.

>

> GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! /rant