Anecdotal remarks about dieticians may be cute, but many of us have disdain for professional dieticians, who, by and large are totally ignorant of anything remotely "dietary" except for the mantra just about all of us here are fighting against, due to widespread useful dietary information ignorance in that camp.

There is a somewhat flakey approach to life certain individuals take misunderstanding REAL nutrition, or science in general for that matter.

Did any dietician, or anyone claiming to be one, ever utter words to the effect "that stuff is filled with CHEMICALS!" ?

I hate to break it to them, but EVERYTHING, including our entire bodies, and the Earth, and the entire universe for that matter, is made of chemicals!

It's just another aspect of the manipulation to put a spin on what you want to bad-mouth. And it goes with its twin "Natural" in terms of misleadings, etc.

Much Rat Poison is natural. There are places where the radioactivity level is so high NATURALLY you shouldn't stay there for any length of time [unless you want to mine Uranium, which is in the form of a CHEMICAL and is indeed NATURAL].

Dieticians are likely one of the leading causes of obesity today. People place false hope in their recommendations all the time, and worse, get steered away from the WOE most of us here practice obtaining REAL results, not adherance to artificial and flawed recommendations from agencies sometimes disseminating information out of some combination of ignorance and hidden agendas, etc.

There are far worse things to drink than "soda" especially if it is of the type lacking sugar. But many dieticians want you to avoid "soda" as if all are 100% "evil" and instead have "healthy" stuff like unspecified "fruit juice" or even [gasp!] regular Snapple.

Yes, let's increase your "health" by switching from carbonated no-carb water to fructose-loaded liquids sometimes fortified with caffeine [which does real "wonderful" things to my insulin-resistance!]

Someone once said [Shakespeare I think] shoot the lawyers. If we were to make our own list, how far down would "shoot the dieticians" be on that list?

cjl (with reference to a study confirming the Atkins regimen actually working: "That violates the laws of Thermodynamics!" is the response, quoted in the media, by, I believe, a "dietician".)