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Why You Can’t Trust the Weight Loss Advice of a Dietitian

April 19 13:54 in Calorie Counting, Crazy ways to lose weight, Lobbyism

Coca Cola

Here’s a photo from a symposium for dietitians. It is not a joke.

This is why you can’t trust weight loss advice from a dietitian. He or she may have been trained by The Coca Cola Company. The largest professional association of dietitians in America have sold out to the junk food industry, as previously reported.

If you ask a dietitian for weight loss advice you’ll probably just be told to eat less calories. You can keep eating junk food once in a while and even drink soda, as long as you count the calories. This is exactly what the Coca Cola Company wants you to believe.

The truth is that this advice only suits masochists who enjoy being hungry forever. If you want to lose weight without hunger there is a better way to do it.

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Is Your Dietitian Educated by The Coca Cola Company?

How American Dietitians Sold Out to Coca Cola and Pepsi

PS: There are of course plenty of smart dietitians too. The photo above is from the Facebook page of Dietitians for Professional Integrity. If you’re a dietitian and want to feel proud of your profession I recommend you support them.

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Doctor: “No Fat People in Auschwitz”

April 11 20:01 in Calorie Counting
Obesity treatment

Obesity treatment?

Here is yet another example of how prejudiced a physician can behave as a result of a calorie fixation. And how little it helps people with problems:

Worried patient was told “no fat people in Auschwitz” (Google translated from Swedish)

In summary a patient asked her doctor about possible medical causes for her weight gain. The doctor told her not to worry about such things. Weight gain was just a matter of how much food she ate. Then the doctor asked her if she had seen pictures from the concentration camp Auschwitz, and if she had seen any fat prisoners there.

I wonder if the doctor have said the same thing if the patient had become overweight due to a more obvious medical problem, for example cortisone treatment?

The sensible way to lose weight is to try to correct the causes of becoming overweight. Not to ignore the causes and count calories while desperately trying to ignore one’s hunger.

In other words: there’s a more natural, pleasant and smarter way to lose weight than playing concentration camp. Fortunately more and more people have realized that.

Have you ever met a similarly prejudiced doctor?

More on calorie counting

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Why You Should Forget About Calories

April 4 21:23 in Calorie Counting

As if calorie counting wasn’t silly enough to start with, it’s actually impossible. Why? Because the number of calories printed on a food item or a menu is bogus, as you’ll see in this 5-minute video. The number of calories printed is basically a number low enough that the manufacturer think they can get away with it.

Forget about the calories. Just eat real food.

If you need to lose weight: avoid sugar and starches. If that’s not enough here are a few more tips.

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Still Believe ‘A Calorie Is a Calorie’?

February 28 20:18 in Calorie Counting, Robert Lustig

Still Believe ‘A Calorie Is a Calorie’? Dr Robert Lustig shares plenty of scientific reasons why that’s simply not correct:

Huffington Post: Still Believe ‘A Calorie Is a Calorie’?

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On Calorie Counting as an Eating Disorder

February 20 11:52 in Calorie Counting

Here are a couple of reactions to my post on calorie counting being an eating disorder:

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Why Calorie Counting is an Eating Disorder

February 18 19:18 in Calorie Counting, Crazy ways to lose weight, Insulin, Paleo Diets

Calorie counting

Is calorie counting an eating disorder? I think so. When I wrote it quite a few people got upset, including a reader by the name of Brittany. But she gave it some thought – and then she really got the point. In fact, she expresses it more eloquently than I ever could.

Here’s her mail:  Continue Reading →

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Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition

February 13 17:44 in Calorie Counting, Confused thinking, Failed low fat diets

woman-confused-about-what-to-eat

What are the biggest lies mistakes of mainstream nutrition? The things that people believe about diet and health that just aren’t true? Here’s a great list:

Authority Nutrition: Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition

I would add two more silly mistakes:

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Why Calorie Counters are Confused

January 28 22:06 in Calorie Counting, Confused thinking, Weight Loss

confused

We’ve all been brainwashed about calories.

A few years ago I believed it myself. Losing weight was exclusively about “consuming less calories than you expend”. The mantra was: “eat less, run more”.

Fat people’s problems – I believed – came from them eating more calories than they expended. They were gluttonous and slothful; they lacked strength of character, which meant that thin people like me had such strength of character. This was uplifting news to me, if a bit prejudiced.

This way of looking at things seemed so obvious and simple. Today however, more and more people realizing how inane it is. Soon we’ll look back and laugh at the silliness.  Continue Reading →

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How American Dietitians Sold Out to Coca Cola and Pepsi

January 24 14:54 in Calorie Counting, Industrial food-like products, Why Americans are Obese
AND and Coca Cola

Sponsored by junk food

Do you trust what dietitians say in the media? Perhaps you shouldn’t. At least in the US the dietitian could have been educated by The Coca Cola Company.

I recommend reading this new report on the “unspeakably cozy relationship” between America’s largest association of nutrition professionals (AND) and Big Food. In short: AND have totally sold out to Coca Cola, Pepsico as well as candy manufacturers (like Mars foods). In return for money and influence Big Food is allowed to, for example, produce educational material and accredited education for the dietitians of America.

So when your dietitian says that it’s all about eating a balanced diet (including soda and candy) and exercising more, that could be arguments taught to him or her by Pepsico.

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Weighty Matters: Author Michele Simon’s Devastating Report on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Corporate Ties

Food Politics: New study: Big Food’s ties to Registered Dietitians

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Calorie Counting and Eating Disorders

January 6 10:40 in Calorie Counting

Needing to count calories means something is wrong (the appetite regulation is disturbed) or the body weight goal is unnatural. We should try to fix what’s wrong and try to have healthy goals, if possible. Then there will be no need to starve.

Calorie counting is an eating disorder.

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