There was a corporate event at my work and among the guests to speak was a nutritionist. I felt I knew better than her, I felt she was bla bla-ing and did not do her research. Yet she is a person who did a medical school and is a general practitioner (family doctor) and also did a nutrition course (her bio)… Even if I am right her authority will trump my facts.
She did not mention any animal products for the first 30 minutes in witch she talked of super foods like maca like straight from a David Wolfe book. Her meal plan was the sacred 3 meal a day with the good carbs, and of course you can always change animal protein for plant protein.
And so many people were tacking notes as crazy…
Corporate event about nutrition - my thoughts
Yogy
(Marius the butter craving dude)
#1
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#2
That sort of thing drives me crazy. Glad you survived, Marius!
Yogy
(Marius the butter craving dude)
#3
The funny line she kept repeting:
“Our grandparents did not eat only lard with cheese and they were healthy… There was more !!”
Sure… My peasant grandparents in central Europe eat maca and bananas even in winter. The funny think doing some independent research, I ask them, is that my grandparents grew up with raw eggs and much milk and meat.
DawnOM
(Dawn O Miller)
#5
The sad reality is that even though this poor girl went to school and studied hard to become a nutritionist you probably do know more than her. I’ve heard interviews of pro-Keto dietitians like Jessica Turton, Caryn Zinn, and nutritionist like Zoe Harcombe and Amy Berger and their biggest challenge was that they were not being taught about how the Keto diet works outside of prescribing it for epileptic children so a lot of them had to do their own research and educate themselves on the diet.
anon13588705
#6
Yes, it’s hard to take.
I am participating in a long term dementia research project and quite willing to donate my time however, they sent me a “nutrition” unit this week which I responded to by telling them they need to get new sources. Recommending all the grains and lots of fruit, same old low fat dogma.
It’s quite discouraging.
I’m going to withdraw from the research…it’s a waste of time, they really don’t know what they are doing which is sad because it is chewing up grant money.
dlc96_darren
#7
You should stay in because you are eating keto, but any results they’ll probably just right off as an anomaly. 
c4ab147ce19adf019545
(c4ab147ce19adf019545)
#8
I’m a regular on these forums. However, I’ve donned my anon hat, because who I am is unimportant for this comment. Anonymity is critical for this post.
Every year my company does a “Move Your Shiny Hiney! ©” campaign. I’ve always been a good little foot soldier. I’ve long wanted to lose weight. I followed orders. I would “get my steps in ©,” "eat more fruits and veggies ©,” and “get to the gym. ©” Every little bit helps ©, right?
Wrong. Despite the happy, healthy, svelte faces assuring me of greener, happier vistas, I remained obese. The pattern of annualized dysfunction, however, is unmistakable.
Same old garbage, year after year.
Well, we hire intelligent people. Dieticians and nutritionists, can and do, extensive research, in the sense of reading white papers and the like, and, yet, remain solidly on the realm of the Ancel Keys ranch. That’s the problem.
Been there, tongue bled. This is the rub. What do I know?
The irony of David Wolfe’s pseudoscience being acceptable to “experts” exposes this charade for what it is.
Sidebar: The only super food I recognize is bacon. Because we all recognize bacon as a superfood. The primordial subconscious, the collective unconscious, is replete with bacon. Vegans, in their sleep, sit before a banquet of endless, bottomless bacon.
I hear the same line, here. Funny, how when I stopped listening to their advice and went elsewhere, indeed, the near opposite, I found the very results they promised.
I dearly wish to push back. I want to rattle the zombie knuckleheads to stop the insanity. Maybe, one day, I can successfully make inroads here.