Nutrition Talk at my Company

[Guest guest]

The company that I work at invited this guy in for a four part talk

on health and excersize and stress management. He is a chiropractor

and his website is all about overall health management and eating

right and excersizing and ofcourse getting chiropracting

adjustments. Anyway, this week his talk was on weight loss and

included a discussion on helping with diabetes and high

triglicerides, etc. I have high triglicerides and I want to lose

some weight so I thought I would check it out. There were a few

interesting things but for the most part it screemed of WAP. Eat

lots of free range, grass fed meet, raw milk, raw cheese. His

weight loss program was cut out all sugar, all grains (including

whole grains and sprouts), cut out all fruit, eat lots of good fats,

lots of meat, and lots of vegetables. He promoted organic, which

was good. His list of proteins for the diet included not one single

vegetable protein source. A girl who was there and is leaning

toward vegatarianism (she still eats fish) asked about doing the

diet if you don't eat meat and he kind of scoffingly said, well you

can't. He was very anti-soy although interstingly he was somewhat

anti-cow milk as well. I just wanted to scream. Here all these

people at my work are coming to hear this guy and try to eat

healthier and he is just sooo off in some ways. And yet, in other

ways, what he says is right on. i made sure to stay after and talk

to the girl that asked the question because I didn't want her to

sway back the other way just because of what this guy said. She

seemed interested in my rebuttle. Anyway, I just had to share

that. It is the first time I have personally come across someone

who seemed so anti-vegetarian and who was in a position to sway

people's opinions.