(December 7, 2015 at 9:02 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I am a Registered Dietitian! It is SO nice to meet not only a fellow Atheist, but fellow nutrition professional as well.Are you working toward your RD? Thank you for clarifying the Gluten issue for others. It is one of my biggest pet peeves!
One of the other things that deeply concerns me is the issue of eating disorders, and fad diets in particular 80/10/10 (/veganisim in general).
I am genuinely shocked at the number of 80/10/10 adherents that are on youtube going on about how great the diet is AND also admit to having had an eating disorder. Here's but one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYdfWhBpQUs
Perhaps even more shocking is that she also sells a "health ebook". She's 19, hasn't studied nutrition (obviously) got her information from the likes of Doug Graham (who also never studied nutrition which you would know but I'm mentioning it for the other AF members), and Leanne Ratcliffe (better known as "Freelee") who just like Graham sells her unqualified health advice, she's also an ex-anorexic (that's if she isn't still suffering from an eating disorder that is), and they're participating in the "fad diet" arena the same way that every large corporate does which is that when people complain "it's bad and it doesn't work" they blame the people not the diet. Although she claims to be qualified, she also claims her anecdotal experience is more important and accurate (see this). I imagine the qualification she claims to have is this worthless piece of junk.
They have so much junk-information out there that it dwarfs proper scientific research. Obviously since you're a dietician and not a psychiatrist you're probably not the best person for people suffering from eating disorders to see, but clearly not everyone who follows this shit has an eating disorder, so my question is does it frustrate you when clients have beliefs about food that run contrary to professional opinion? And do you ever tell clients that following such diets is a risk factor for developing mental illnesses?
Last semester in a class I was, well more horrified than shocked to be truthful, when one group presentation made the claim that people can get Vitamin D from mushrooms. And that was in a third-year course (with two previous unit prerequisites), not a first-year course! I wonder what mushrooms they've been eating...
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
