Glad we have the likes of you to protect them from any non-certified information.

He had plainly stated on his web site that he was not a medical professional and he was speaking only from his own personal experience.

Who are you proposing to help? The answer: a bunch of people who don’t want to be helped, because they know full well the exact type of service they are getting.

In our dystopian reality, any puncturing of the walls of the corrupt medical monopoly can only be seen as a ‘public health issue.’

… ugh.

Is that paleo-commentary?

So I guess Ben Franklin would be shut down if he were here to blog “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”  And to think, previously I was just worried about the number of legal disclaimers he’s have to tack on to the end of his advice.

Some men just want to see the world burn, well it’s things like this that make me want to get to the front that line.

And I’ll edit this just to point something out…up until someone in government makes a big stink about his website I’d never heard of it. I’ve heard of the diet and high protein/low carb diets before, and it’s not like there aren’t plenty of websites that promote them. If I had a medical license I think I’d find these people and remove their heads from their asses…

Now I’m probably going to be trying to think of their name all week.

OK, maybe not as funny now, but goddamn hilarious when you’re on a morphine drip.

yeah,  I was pretty surprised that they felt had important nutritional advice to pass on too.  It may have been a pediatric journal as there was a kid character, and I think the line went that he was “the cool dude here to talk to you about food”.

There was a horrific abuse case in the southwest states (I want to say California but I can’t swear to it) I think 5 or 10 years ago with parents who decided to feed their child nothing but watermelon and water his entire life, but I think that was less “on the advice of a pseudo-expert” and more a case of “free floating crazy ideas” lodging in the wrong skulls.

A child with a problem like diabetes can die without getting anywhere near malnutrition so that’s probably most of the risk. One would hope most parents would recognize severe malnutrition before it gets too late (or a teacher or doctor or other community member will).

That applies to most “alternative” medicine practitioners as well I should think. Do something stupid for long enough and it’s going to have an impact.

I understand why doctors need to be licensed, they are dolling out drugs and treatments, but the worst a dietician can do is give you bad advice on what to eat a bit deficient in something.

Which, when done badly, kills diabetics and results in malnutrition or death in dependents, such as children or the elderly. There’s more than a few cases of this, and severe malnutrition causes permanent developmental and organ damage even if halted before it becomes fatal.

People don’t just get a “bit” deficient from stupid advice and then realize their problem is malnutrition and suddenly wise up. They’re getting advice from someone because they don’t know any better, and they’re likely to go back to their “expert” when they feel ill, who may diagnose them with needing a “colon cleanse” or needing cheiropractic realignment or something else utterly unrelated to nutrition… or just that they need to do the special diet “more harder” because the “expert” doesn’t know enough about the subject either.

Two idiots together, one callous, the other credulous, can become a walking disaster.

I shouldn’t be surprised, McD’s are one of the main sponsors of the London Olympics :/

Nothing to see here, move along..

In other news, McDonalds are still not offering dietary or medical advice to people.

Well, no. What they’re threatening to do is find him in violation of a statute that says you cannot practice dietetics, assess nutritional needs of others, or provide nutritional counseling without a license. Which does seem to be a reasonable precaution against a possible public health issue. And which he does in fact appear to be violating, after looking through his not-just-a-personal-blog website. So… this is more like the appropriate headline: “Local health authority fulfilling its remit within the bounds of the law & reason”