Kiefer’s video….Dietitian or Nutritionist?

[Brandon D Christ]

So I asked a few of my professors who are RDs and such who informed me that while you are required to inform clients that your recommendations do not coincide with the government dietary guidelines, there is no legal obligation to follow them.. One even became my favorite after she expressed he love for ketogenic dieting. haha

curious if this is state dependent

Or if there are liability issues.

[CBachelor17]

So I asked a few of my professors who are RDs and such who informed me that while you are required to inform clients that your recommendations do not coincide with the government dietary guidelines, there is no legal obligation to follow them.. One even became my favorite after she expressed he love for ketogenic dieting. haha

curious if this is state dependent

Not sure how it could be state dependent following Federal Guidelines... interesting though. Here in OH they can/won't tell you otherwise.

[Gnomer]

So I asked a few of my professors who are RDs and such who informed me that while you are required to inform clients that your recommendations do not coincide with the government dietary guidelines, there is no legal obligation to follow them.. One even became my favorite after she expressed he love for ketogenic dieting. haha

curious if this is state dependent

Or if there are liability issues.

yea was wondering about that as well.. not really sure how that works as I never seen a certified dietitian..  do they have you sign a liability agreement? i guess if so that would keep you from getting in trouble for giving out your own advice if it happened to have adverse effects on someone...

[CBachelor17]

I didn't have to sign anything. Maybe a dietitian having a private practice would be able to go outside the guidelines but then i would imagine a waiver of some sort would be signed. Just as a PT has you sign a waiver.. The dietitian i saw was at OSU Medical and Research Center. 

[qnxtn]

I went to college to become a Dietitian and received my bachelor's in Dietetics.  I decided to do it because I had an eating disorder and I thought that there had to be a better way to lose weight and keep it off than what I was doing (I was bulimic for 6-7 years).  In actuality, the emphasis of my program (SFSU) was Medical Nutrition Therapy: clinical dietitians.  Basically they do things like precisely calculate enteral tube feeds for sick and injured people, such as burn victims (who require higher protein to repair tissue damage) or kidney failure (who can no longer process much protein).I also learned about food service dietetics, which like is food service mgmt for company cafeterias such as Google.. this was dietetics??  The least I learned about was about community dietetics, which is what i thought the majority of my schooling would be about.  Nope, it was the least.  I did some volunteer work teaching low income children about sugar in soda and learned about the steps of counseling, that kind of stuff.Then to become an Registered Dietitian (RD), I would have had to apply for certified internships at universities, basically like grad school: pay tuition, graduate after about a year, THEN I would be eligible to take the RD exam.  Let's just say that after all that I developed a dislike of Dietetics and did not continue to become an RD...it was so stressful dealing with conflicting information in the real world and my eating disorder was worse. I later went to an IOP ED program and am better, but I still have 10-15 lbs of fat I would like to lose and am still struggling (but hopeful!) with CNS.I think that it's hard to say that one side is right and the other wrong, because I think there are a lot of unsubstantiated claims, outdated studies, and new and upcoming research in the entire world of nutrition all the time.  Even Kiefer says that there are no long term studies on CBL and CNS, so he doesn't know for sure on certain things such as blood lipid profiles long term.  I find it so difficult distinguish from broscience and school and Kiefer and everything else out there.  Who is right?I may even go as far as saying maybe everyone is a little bit right.  Not to get into a new argument but it's kind of like the religions of the world...which one is right?  They all can be...if it works for you.  I know my eating disorder did not work for me, nor did being a cardio junkie and restricting calories to low 1000s.  I still think Dietitians are good for certain things, as there are soooo many types of dietitians that will tell you different things based on their employer or their focus as a private practice...and as somebody earlier said, they knew a dietitian that was into ketogenic dieting, so they aren't all pushing carbs all the time.  It just was not for me or my goals.  You don't have to listen to a dietitian if you don't like what they are saying (or me for that matter).  I'm still conflicted about Kiefer saying women should do resistance training (I'm not doing it b/c I'm gonna bulk and you can't make me :P)

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