If we want to improve the quality of nutrition information on the net then we need to stop blaming ‘certified nutritionists’ for all of the crap information that is available on-line.
I mean it.
You can’t really blame the ‘certified nutritionists’. They probably paid good money for their certification and thus they probably beleive what they have been taught is true.
Most of them do not have advanced degrees in nutrition, and the vast majority of them are truly trying to help you lose weight and eat better.
So they are not the ones we should be blaming when they promote ridiculous nutrition myths – it’s the people who gave them the horrible education that we need to blame.
In case you didn’t know – No one certifies the certifiers. There is no governing body of nutrition that oversees the content of these courses.
Many of these course are multiple-choice mail-in style tests.
(Even the prestigious CSCS examination is a simple multiple choice test – When I wrote it in 2003 there was no practical or hands on component)
So it’s not the certified nutritionists you should be mad at, it’s the people who are misleading THEM that deserve our wrath.
These people are singled out at taken advantage of. They fall for clever marketing that prays on the fact that they really, truly want to help people eat better and lose weight!
If you get bad pseudo-science style advice – look at the true source – they are the people who need to be reprimanded.
BP
