About nutrition, that is.
The foods that we eat play a large part in how healthy or unhealthy we are so, in my mind, nutrition is a really super duper important thing to learn if you’re going into the healthcare field. If you don’t know this about me, you should read more of my blog posts 😀 . So, you’d think that medical schools would have future doctors learn as much as possible about nutrition, right? Guess what? Wrong.
Apparently, only a handful of medical schools bother to even offer one course on nutrition. Some don’t bother with any sort of nutrition courses at all. Want to read an article from U.S. News published in 2016 about this? Click here.
Here’s what people need to start doing – ask your doctor how many science-based nutrition courses they have taken before you start accepting their food opinions as actual science. I should bold the “science-based” but I won’t — you know that’s important, right?
Did you also know that a large amount of nutrition information that is taught to registered dietitians is old data? Yep, the industry knows it but they keep teaching it. Well, you know what they say — follow the money.
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I've been on a journey of discovery with nutrition and lifestyle for a while but something happened to me recently that has made me open my heart and accept that this is what I'm meant to do: To help anyone who really wants to change, wants to learn, wants to see things differently so they can help their bodies heal. For many years I struggled with my weight, fought with my doctors over not taking cholesterol medications, found myself thinking that I was healthy on a vegan diet but learned that I didn't know as much as I thought I did. A bad reaction to antibiotics in January, 2018, landed me at a diving board of health choices: either I would jump off and completely change my diet or I would back away and climb down to accept that food was stronger than my will to be healthier. I took the dive and it was a beautiful, multiple somersault dive! I have, since then, lost a good amount of weight which is still coming off, brought my cholesterol into a normal range, lowered my blood pressure, and feel AH-Mazing. I decided that I want to help others learn what took me way too many years to learn for myself. If you are here, if you like what I have to say on my blog and you need help to find your way back to a healthier version of yourself, contact me. I am currently a certified Health Coach via the Dr. Sears' program and am in the process of going to school to get my RDN (Registered Dietician & Nutritionist). I do speak my mind on this blog but I do so from a place of love. Enjoy your life and your health! Also, know that, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases on this site.
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