validate the advice of your professional

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> I am not an expert and very, very new at this game, (but we do have a

> damn good dietitian.)

>

> & T1

Hi ;

This really deserved a new thread....

I've had a big problem in the past with dieticians who thought they

were pretty good. Turns out their dusty old textbooks taught the

laughably low RDA requirements rather than optimal nutrition.

Nowadays we see that as a very big difference.

For example they wailed that they couldn't comprehend how anyone

could responsibly recommend, rather than RDA 400, a 'dangerously

high' daily dose of 5,000 IU of vitamin D, when even ten times that

short term isn't even an issue and your body easily makes 20 times

that if you are out in the sun all day. Of course I had to use my

newspaper column to rub their noses in the actual data .

The moral is that with any health professional you choose, it pays to

find out where they are coming from and validate their information

rather than simply adhering it to as if it was automagically valid

because they finished their course.

No profession is exempt; every professional is an individual with

their own viewpoint. We've seen that also with doctors and the quasi-

authoritative sources such as the ADA, that has been recommending

exactly the diet that causes diabetes, or the Heart and Stroke

Foundation, that has been recommending exactly a heart disease

causing diet for decades.

It would be a good rule #1 rather than an exception to the rule that

to get the job done right you should probably take their

recommendations under advisement because they might indeed know what

they're doing, then go home and refer right back to the actual

research they are quoting or ask someone who has done that. This is

easy to check on, and I'd recommend that we do it ourselves.

regards,

Duncan Crow

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> It would be a good rule #1 rather than an exception to the rule that

> to get the job done right you should probably take their

> recommendations under advisement because they might indeed know what

> they're doing, then go home and refer right back to the actual

> research they are quoting or ask someone who has done that.

I agree, please bear with me in my tone of writing. I love to learn and

I'm at an early stage - I relay my knowledge and attend all events in

connection with her Type 1. We will be starting week 4 and I could

write a book...

P.S. Sometimes I say something out of passion and hit the " send "

button. What you have said here really applies to all situations in life.

P.S.S. I belong to another very close knit group of dog owners with a

very rare disease. We had our baby given a " living Autopsopsy " for

research. It should of been called " case history " for research.

Anyway, rescue groups, against animal research, and a number others

inundated our group with 100's of negative post because of our action.

It finally settled down. I hope you can see the relevance of why I tell

you this.

& T1