idiot experts

Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on. Showed
a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty sight. Then as
they explained how desperate she was to lose weight along with her two
chubby young daughters and her husband, they showed little scenes of
the failiy eating potato chips, then twinkies, then soda, then an ice
cream bar, then they showed her piling onto the entire half of a dinner
plate a huge mound of mashed potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high
alongside what looked like oven baked english style french fries on the
same plate.

Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
(I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."

That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
"experts" anymore.

TC

wrote:
Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on. Showed
a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty sight. Then as
they explained how desperate she was to lose weight along with her two
chubby young daughters and her husband, they showed little scenes of
the failiy eating potato chips, then twinkies, then soda, then an ice
cream bar, then they showed her piling onto the entire half of a dinner
plate a huge mound of mashed potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high
alongside what looked like oven baked english style french fries on the
same plate.

Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
(I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."

That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
"experts" anymore.

TC


Your error here is assuming that a nutritionist or dietician is
automatically an "expert".

A nutritionist or dietician or medical doctor or engineer may not be an
"expert", but may be merely a nutritionist or dieticain or medical
doctor or engineer.

While I was in the car today on the way to the store I heard a blurb about
the British government planning to include cheese in a proposed advertising
ban on junk food because it's high in fat. Of course, the dairy industry is
having a fit and I have to agree with them in this case, cheese is such good
stuff, low carb, nice blend of protein and fat, and such a variety of
wonderful flavors. It doesn't take a whole lot of it to make an eater
happy.

wrote:
| Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on.
| Showed a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty
| sight. Then as they explained how desperate she was to lose weight
| along with her two chubby young daughters and her husband, they
| showed little scenes of the failiy eating potato chips, then
| twinkies, then soda, then an ice cream bar, then they showed her
| piling onto the entire half of a dinner plate a huge mound of mashed
| potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high alongside what looked like oven
| baked english style french fries on the same plate.
|
| Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
| She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
| potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
| (I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
| afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."
|
| That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
| "experts" anymore.
|
| TC

I am afraid it is all too true( And yes, potatoes and bread are 'good'
for diets don't you know??? It seems that it is not the potato or bread that
is bad for you, but what you put on it!!!

Not all people in the UK are stupid)

Ophelia in Scotland, on a very low carb diet and doing well)





"FOB" wrote in message
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While I was in the car today on the way to the store I heard a blurb about
the British government planning to include cheese in a proposed
advertising
ban on junk food because it's high in fat. Of course, the dairy industry
is
having a fit and I have to agree with them in this case, cheese is such
good
stuff, low carb, nice blend of protein and fat, and such a variety of
wonderful flavors. It doesn't take a whole lot of it to make an eater
happy.

wrote:
| Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on.
| Showed a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty
| sight. Then as they explained how desperate she was to lose weight
| along with her two chubby young daughters and her husband, they
| showed little scenes of the failiy eating potato chips, then
| twinkies, then soda, then an ice cream bar, then they showed her
| piling onto the entire half of a dinner plate a huge mound of mashed
| potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high alongside what looked like oven
| baked english style french fries on the same plate.
|
| Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
| She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
| potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
| (I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
| afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."
|
| That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
| "experts" anymore.
|
| TC

Jbuch wrote:
wrote:
Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on. Showed
a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty sight. Then as
they explained how desperate she was to lose weight along with her two
chubby young daughters and her husband, they showed little scenes of
the failiy eating potato chips, then twinkies, then soda, then an ice
cream bar, then they showed her piling onto the entire half of a dinner
plate a huge mound of mashed potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high
alongside what looked like oven baked english style french fries on the
same plate.

Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
(I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."

That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
"experts" anymore.

TC


Your error here is assuming that a nutritionist or dietician is
automatically an "expert".

A nutritionist or dietician or medical doctor or engineer may not be an
"expert", but may be merely a nutritionist or dieticain or medical
doctor or engineer.

It is so frikkin' ridiculous that those within our society who are the
highest educated in the field of nutrition would be the most ignorant
of what nutrition actually is.

TC

It is so frikkin' ridiculous that those within our society who are the
highest educated in the field of nutrition would be the most ignorant
of what nutrition actually is.

TC


in the OLD days(60's-70's-80's) doctors and nurses got very LITTLE education
in nutrition.
i learned more here in ASD-LC than i have ever learned about nutrition in
nursing school or when i was assigned to teach diabetics!
YIKES!

readandpostrosie wrote:
It is so frikkin' ridiculous that those within our society who are the
highest educated in the field of nutrition would be the most ignorant
of what nutrition actually is.

TC


in the OLD days(60's-70's-80's) doctors and nurses got very LITTLE education
in nutrition.
i learned more here in ASD-LC than i have ever learned about nutrition in
nursing school or when i was assigned to teach diabetics!
YIKES!

They still get very little education, and what education they get is
crap. Medical people who advocate vitamins and nutrition are not
helping the profession maintain their income and status and are accused
of quackery. I've been refferred to as a "Lifestyle Food Cultist" in
the science ng for my views on what real nutrition is. There are a lot
of people and corporations whose income relies directly on the masses
not understanding what real nutrition is. There is no financial gain
for doctors to heal with simple nutrition.

TC

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:23:38 -0800, tunderbar wrote:

Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on. Showed
a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty sight. Then as
they explained how desperate she was to lose weight along with her two
chubby young daughters and her husband, they showed little scenes of
the failiy eating potato chips, then twinkies, then soda, then an ice
cream bar, then they showed her piling onto the entire half of a dinner
plate a huge mound of mashed potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high
alongside what looked like oven baked english style french fries on the
same plate.

Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
(I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."

That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
"experts" anymore.

TC

The "expert" wasn't "Dr." Gillian McKeith by any chance?

Steven C wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:23:38 -0800, tunderbar wrote:

Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on. Showed
a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty sight. Then as
they explained how desperate she was to lose weight along with her two
chubby young daughters and her husband, they showed little scenes of
the failiy eating potato chips, then twinkies, then soda, then an ice
cream bar, then they showed her piling onto the entire half of a dinner
plate a huge mound of mashed potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high
alongside what looked like oven baked english style french fries on the
same plate.

Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
(I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."

That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
"experts" anymore.

TC

The "expert" wasn't "Dr." Gillian McKeith by any chance?

I don't know.

TC

wrote:
I can't stand such stupidity from "experts" anymore.

TC

Interestingly, I was at the gym today and a poster on the wall caught
my eye. It was from some "exercise and nutrition" council or
oganization which listed the Top 10 things people do wrong when
exercising.

The first point was not eating breakfast. The image next to that point
showed a bowl of cereal. No protien source, not even a gratuitious
piece of fruit. Another of the Top 10 was not eating enough carbs. No
differentiation was made between types carbs, just a jab at avoiding
"faddish" low carb diets. Finally, a third point of the Top 10 was a
balanced diet, which they described as (in this order) lots of grain
products, "pasta for energy", vegetables, fruit, and a "small amount of
protien". (Thier words, my quotation marks added)

My take-away was that 30% of the poster was focused on pushing
corporate nutrition science. I plan to go back tomorrow and look at
the .org name who sponsored it. I'm curious who they are...