This article is from a health and fitness writer online.  I read his column frequently, and today's seemed to go right along with what we have been talking about nutrition wise.  It really hit home when he talks about the ADA turning out "brainwashed dieticians."  That was me a few years ago.  I was working on my masters to become a registered dietician.  I realized that I was going to have to tell my patients/clients what the ADA told me to say, not what I really believed.  Not what I knew worked, what I knew was the most healthy way to eat.  I was going to have to give advice that would ultimately hurt this person more than it would help them.  That is why I quit taking classes and stopped pursuing my master's degree. 

 

I am so happy that I did because I know I am SO much happier working in a sweaty gym than I EVER would have been working in a hospital!  I am so thankful that I went with my gut and decided that my path was not becoming an RD!  Please read below.  More articles by Chris Shugart can be found at www.velocitylife.com.  I am not the only proponent of giving up grains.  :) 

 

Chris is a men's writer, so some of his articles are harsh and very to the point.  Just to warn you...

 

 

This Means War
Hi, my name is Chris Shugart and I'm an insurgent.

More specifically, I'm a food insurgent.

You see, I've had enough. I'm no longer going to listen to the major nutrition and health associations. In fact, they've become the enemy. As a diet and fitness professional myself, I just can't sit around and let these groups lie to people.

At first I thought these organizations, like the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Dietetic Association (ADA), were just out of date or misinformed. I thought they were just stuck in the last century, woefully behind the times when it came to their eating guidelines. I thought, "Well, we all want to help people lose fat and get healthy; we just have different opinions about how to go about it."

Nope. Turns out that the AHA and ADA are just corrupt.

Let's take a look at the "nonprofit" American Heart Association. The AHA gets a whole lot of its funding from the processed food industry. It basically works like this: If you're, say, a breakfast cereal maker and you want to trick people into thinking that your product is healthy, you can apply to the AHA and see if they'll let you put their "heart check" seal of approval on it.


Have you been suckered? Check!
As expected, this involves the writing of a fat check to the AHA.

Sure enough, if the product is low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and your check cashes, you get to put their stamp of approval on your cereal. Last time I looked, this label had been placed on over 700 products, including Cookie Crisps and Coco Puffs, products made almost entirely of sugar and major contributors to the obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Of course, we know now that saturated fat isn't really bad for everyone. It's healthy and even necessary. And cholesterol? Well, we're figuring out that dietary sources of cholesterol don't seem to effect blood levels of cholesterol. In fact, eating a higher fat/cholesterol diet that contains things like whole eggs has been shown to lower "bad" cholesterol levels and raise "good" cholesterol levels.

So why the out-dated stance by the AHA? Because it pays, literally, to ignore reality and modern research. And cereal makers have very deep pockets.

The American Dietetic Association, responsible for churning out thousands of brainwashed dieticians who push low-fat, high-carb diets onto a population that's getting fatter and sicker, is no better. Same shenanigans, especially when it comes to Big Sugar and Big Cola. When Coke and Pepsi say "jump!" the ADA says, "Yes, sir! How high? And would like us to wear a frilly pink dress as we leap?"

Why? Because Big Cola is the ADA's sugar-daddy.

Pun intended.


Give them diabetes, then sell them a book to fix it. Brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.

You know, I started researching and writing about food because I wanted to lose fat and have "ript abs." I started avoiding certain foods and eating other foods to help me get lean, stay lean, build muscle, and feel good. I even developed the V-Diet to help kick-start that body transformation and break the addictions to modern non-foods... you know, like those foods endorsed by the AHA and ADA.

But it's gone beyond that. It has become sort of a rebellion, an insurgency against the lies and the corruption. I would never buy cereal these days, not just because it's unhealthy garbage, but because I can't buy it in good conscience. As a health and fitness expert, I just can't knowingly put money into the pockets of those who spread false information to people who are trying to lose weight and get healthy.

I'm trying to tell people the truth. The ADA and AHA are telling them lies. Maybe we're not at "war," but we're certainly playing for different teams.

Game on.