{"id":4340,"date":"2012-05-22T20:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2012-05-22T20:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:14:03","slug":"change-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/change-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m back from Minneapolis, where I was the pre-dinner speaker for a group of registered dietitians who work for Lifetime Fitness<\/a>, a large national health and fitness organization.\u00a0 I was delighted to be there \u2026 not so much because they had me give my Science For Smart People<\/em> speech, but because this was a group of mostly young dietitians who have seen the light.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s due largely to the efforts of Tom Nikkola<\/a>, the Director of Nutrition and Weight Management for Lifetime Fitness.\u00a0 Tom is a very fit and healthy-looking guy who understands that it\u2019s refined carbohydrates, not fats, that are making people fat and sick.\u00a0 His wife, Vanessa Romero, shared her story during a brief talk on the low-carb cruise.\u00a0 Like so many other people, she suffered health problems on a grain-based, low-fat diet and had to battle back from them.\u00a0 Tom is determined that the dietitians who work for Lifetime will be giving out advice that actually works, so he brought them to Minneapolis for a few days to explain the science.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said many times that I believe we will eventually move away from the failed dietary paradigm promoted by the USDA and other government \u201cexperts,\u201d but the change will come from the ground up.\u00a0 It will happen because people like Tom Nikkola insist the dietitians in his organization look at the actual science instead of parroting what they were taught in school.\u00a0 I talked to a few of the dietitians before and after dinner and was encouraged by what they had to say.\u00a0 More than one said that something about the low-fat, healthywholegrains <\/em>dietary advice never felt quite right, especially when it was being espoused by instructors who were clearly not healthy.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the good news.\u00a0 I\u2019m seeing the Wisdom of Crowds in action.\u00a0 These dietitians will be giving advice to hundreds if not thousands of clients over the years, and perhaps the clients will pass on the same advice to family and friends.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that when I looked at the breakfast menu in the hotel, there was a section called Joy Bauer\u2019s Healthy Options.<\/em> The \u201chealthy\u201d options were (of course) an egg-white omelet with steamed vegetables, oatmeal, a fruit and juice combo with low-fat yogurt, whole-grain pancakes, whole-wheat toast, and some kind of turkey sausage concoction.\u00a0 In other words, \u201chealthy\u201d means low fat and\/or whole grains.<\/p>\n

So I ordered an omelet with sausage, cheese and onions \u2013 you know, from the \u201cnot healthy\u201d part of the menu.\u00a0 Then I got a plane for Nashville and was one of the few passengers in my section who said no thanks to the offer of crackers, peanuts or pretzels.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t hungry.<\/p>\n

Change is coming.\u00a0 I\u2019ll know it\u2019s arrived when the Joy Bauer\u2019s Healthy Options <\/em>section of a hotel breakfast menu is long gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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