[quote]detazathoth wrote:
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I’m glad I started another long lasting thread. I can only hope for this much commentary when I come out with my website, which I plan on putting up late this year.
Modok: Yes, we’ve touched on several things here - nutritional quality, evolution, performance, and physiology.
I like discussing all these things. However, if you look at my original post, you can see that I mainly put it up because of the evolutionary argument and perspective. I know I keep repeating this ad nauseum (might have done three or four times here already), but my main gripe is fitness professionals discussing nutrition from an evolutionary standpoint when they show no formal training or education or competence in a life science, physical anthropology, or history.
There’s no way as an RD and ordinary dude I’m delving into the topic of the evolution of man. I don’t know shit about it, and people using the WEAK reasoning of, “We’re not meant to eat _____ because it’s only been 10,000 years since we’ve done so,” shows they don’t know much abotu it either!
I’ll repeat myself again: We’ve only discovered and/or consumed so-and-so food item for _____ years. I ask, So what?
How doesn’t this tell me it’s not a good idea to eat so-and-so food item?
What successful bodybuilder or athlete doesn’t eat grains?
REALLY, whose health is being hampered from consuming things like corn, barley, oatmeal, rice, millet, rye, and wheat and products made of them - provided they’re not allergic - in APPROPRIATE amounts?
XAB: I’m glad you did drop names on RDs that have no business dabbling with sports dietetics! I appreciate that much more than the dumbass blanket statement of “idiotic dietitians” because the word “idiotic” can be appplied to all professions. The first THREE doctors I went to for treatment of my hypogonadism were morons - morons that couldn’t tell something was wrong despite the fact that my lab results showed that my LH, FSH, and testosterone levels were abnormal, with the LH and FSH values being VERY LOW. Those guys are idiots!
About the picture: Of course that’s not a flattering image of RDs and Chris Shugart purposely hunted down a picture of two nebishy, unstylish, overweight dietitians to prove his point that RDs AS A WHOLE shouldn’t be taken seriously. It’s a rather juvenile move considering I’ve seen a whole slew of nurses (loads of fat ones, at least where I’ve worked), doctors, and dentists (my former one was a very fat woman) and YES, PERSONAL TRAINERS that are out of shape and have wack style. In all my years as a nutrition professional and a student, I haven’t had too many peers that are out of shape or in poor health. What few people realize is that some obese RDs became RDs because of their interest in their own physical and mental condition.
Shugart has had a habit in the past few years of using rather juvenile tactics to get his point across. Yeah, all of us on here loathe the thought of being fat. But do we really have to post pics of morbidly obese fat people who’ve possibly destroyed their lives? I don’t find it funny, and as a professional will never use that sort of tool to warn people of the dangers of poor health habits or to motivate them to implement them.
It’s also rather juvenile and mean spirited to say more infantile shit like, “Chubby guys get no ass and if they do, it’s from fat, ugly chics.” First off, I know a ton of ordinary AND chubby dudes with women and they don’t give a rat’s ass about a muscle! And second, being ugly isn’t something someone controls and to say that ugly people don’t deserve sex or a relationship IS mean spirited! Anyway, I’ve also seen LOADS of ugly dudes with hot women - and NO, not all - actually hardly any - of these guys are loaded.
