The Flaws of Modern Dietetics

• Dietitians' certificates state they learned nutrition and dietetics, but dentists stopped learning nutrition in dental school in 1947.
• Modern dietetics was founded on the false idea that a calorie is a calorie," which originated from the Atwater system, developed by Wilbur Olin Atwater in 1916.
• Atwater determined how much heat energy (kilocalories or kcal) three macronutrients release when burned in a bomb calorimeter.
• He calculated ratios to determine kcal content in food based on protein (4 kcal/gm), carbohydrate (4 kcal/gm), and fat (9 kcal/gm).
• Fat was considered the most calorie-dense and a primary factor in weight gain.
• Dietitians have used this arithmetic to calculate a patient's food plate.
• The Atwater equation doesn't account for the intestinal microbiome and its metabolism of 25-30% of food intake, or fiber's impact on altering that percentage.
• Fiber does not contribute calories to the total, but it changes the percentage absorbed, creating a difference between calories eaten and metabolized.
• The amount of calories absorbed from nuts like almonds can be 30% less than calorimeter-generated values.
• Some manufacturers are reducing the labeling of caloric content of their products to reflect this fact.
• The field of modern dietetics began in 1917.
• The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) has argued that obesity and nutrition can be determined with simple math by adding up what's in food versus what is needed.
• Per the AND, chronic disease is driven by calorie excess.
• The AND promotes the “Eat Right” and exercise motto.
• Subterfuges include Smart Choices, NuVal, and the Global Energy Balance Network.
• Coca-Cola sponsors Exercise is Medicine.
• Corporate dietitians and the AND have exonerated processed foods for decades due to their focus on calories.
• The source of calories matters and is not physics, it is nutritional biochemistry.
• The AND supports the Nutrition Facts label.
• What's been done to the food, not what's in it, is what matters.
• 90% of the AND's operating budget comes from Big Food, according to public health lawyer Michele Simon.

Dieticians In Practice

• Dallas dietitian Neva Cochran, RD, defended the idea that "a calorie IS a calorie" on YouTube.
• Cochran represents the processed food industry; calories are the industry's shield.
• Public schools are now the biggest franchise food operation in the world.
• The School Nutrition Association supports processed food.
• Courtney Gaine, PhD, RD, president of the Sugar Association, canceled a debate in 2015 and Connie Diekman, RD, upheld the Sugar Association's energy balance party line.
• Dietitians took over nutritional counseling in the 1960s.
• Current models suggest half of Americans will be obese by 2030.
• Patients remain ill because processed foods are addictive, doctors are ambivalent, and dietitians are complicit with Big Food.
• 28% of children's hospitals in America have fast food concessions.
• Removal of sugared beverages from hospital menus was opposed by dietitians, who called it "cruel and inhuman punishment.".
• Dietitians wouldn't allow removing fruit juice from UCSF.
• The core of the profession is bound by the AND.