"Butter and animal fats are bad for you because they are solid at room temperatures. They clog your arteries."

Cauliflower and bread are also solid at room temperatures.... what a stupid argument I heard many of my dietitian colleagues use!!!

Another one: "You shouldn't go on a gluten-free diet before being tested for celiac disease. Stop your gluten-free diet now, eat plenty of gluten everyday for the next 2 months and we'll test you. If you don't have celiac disease, you won't have to stay on a gluten-free diet."

If someone feels better with gluten, let them eat a gluten-free diet. An elimination diet still is the gold-standard for diagnosing food intolerances.

The nutritionist at work (corporate wellness program) told me that the body burns carbohydrates preferentially. I told her that she was mistaken and that fat and ketones were prefered. She insisted I was wrong. It ended up this big scene in from of a few co-workers in which I asked her to read a biochemistry textbook and get back to me. She never did.

Pay now or pay later I say (with respect to "expensive" food). Nursing homes aren't cheap.

"You're not getting nearly enough fiber and you need fiber because everyone knows you can't poop without fiber."

"You need to watch your cholesterol. Yay for statins!"

"Everything is fine in moderation." (While eating a box of Oreos)

I had one tell me (years ago after being diagnosed with an allergy) I should really eat a lot of fresh berries, full of amazing antioxidants! But, they told me this in November. And, when I stated that they weren't in season, she asked if I wanted her help or not. Help yes, her's no.

Ha. While trying to get my nutritionist visit covered by my insurance company, my doctor called and talked to a bunch of people to try and figure out the gray areas that might get it covered... Weight loss, ohhh no that's not covered at all. But what is? Obesity prevention! Um, so since I am a bit overweight we can bill it as obesity prevention but not weight loss guidance. Deal. WTF?

Ugh. Are fresh, organic vegetables, fruits, and meats more expensive than their inferior, chemical ridden, corn filled alternatives? Yes. But once you cut out the fancy whole wheat bread, boxed rice mixes, cakes, canned soups and sugary cereals, you can come out ahead, if not even.

And that's not counting the potential medical bills from the diseases that can be caused or aggravated by eating crap.

What kind of price tag do they put on their health and welfare? And their children's, for those that have them?

SAD is a religion for many people. (a belief system dogmatically held in absence of supporting information and often despite available evidence.) Yet, have you ever questioned persons most closely held beliefs? Very little good ever comes from it.

I am finishing up a nutrition degree, and there was one week earlier this year I was feeling a little off - it's important to note that everyone around me (at the hospital I was rotating at, at school, at work) was coming down with a particularly nasty strain of influenza. One of my peers (who came down with it hard a couple days later):

"You know, you're probably feeling off because of that diet of yours. You should add whole grains back into it. I'm just saying...it's not healthy to avoid them!" [insert smug head shake here]

Needless to say, I did not start consuming "whole grains," nor did I come down with the flu.

When I told my nutritionist friend that I was eating paleo, she responded:

"Well....paleo plus grains and dairy is okay."

Not sure what her concept of paleo is!

My nutritionist told me that I had to had 6 servings of whole grain per day. Including whole wheat and whole rye....

"If you still feel hungry (on this low fat, low protein, low calorie diet), just eat a cucumber!"

"This has to be the wierdest diet I have ever seen."

My dietitian, on showing her my (Paleo/GAPS) food diary last month.

It's strange that a diet of meat, leafy vegetables, nuts and berries is seen as 'wierd' for a human, but there you go.

To be fair, the dietitian did tell me to keep on eating it (until they've diagnosed my bowel problems...).

I agree with the elimination of processed foods & consumption of things like lean protein, fruits & veggies in particular. But it seems to me that it's very possible to go overboard on fats on the paleo diet, no?