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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And here comes the smug RDN on this thread,… your ilk is as much to blame for the fat epidemic as anyone. You pushed the message. …So yeah. I’m annoyed with people who pretend to know but don’t admit what their field did.[/quote]

[quote]DP. And ignorant. Prior PP was on point re dieticians.[/quote]

You two are really smug with your handy hindsight.  Do you two retroactively blame [b]all[/b]  practitioners for their prior care when the scientific evidence is later updated?  Or just the dieticians?

All those MDs in the 1950s who encouraged parents to put their babies on their stomachs to sleep, surely leading some infants to die of SIDS — shall we lash out smugly at 1951 pediatrician Dr. John Doe while applying updated research that wasn't available until decades later?  The EMS guys helping you install your carseats next week — should we blame them when, in 2040, the research shows kids should be rear-facing until age 6, and the EMS installer only told you "rear-facing until 2" based on 2019 evidence?

I mean, we could do this all day.  I'm a physical therapist who prides herself on staying very current on good research, and I apply that to my patients (I'm inpatient).  Using your logic, it's apparently going to my fault if my current care is outdated in 25 years due to research that hasn't been conducted yet.  I will be "much to blame" for things that don't exist yet.

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There is nothing quite like the obesity rates, however, nothing. It was a situation created by the medical community, a situation which afflicts unevenly - those who have genetic susceptibilities to obesity - perhaps a slow thyroid, a predisposition to put on fat, issues with insulin, etc - and the poor for whom cheap, poor quality processed food is the most accessible. The medical community *made* this happen and [b]then blamed people for getting fat.[/b] Therein lies the difference from your babies on their stomachs advice.

And what would you do if you noticed that your patients weren’t improving with what you were telling them to do, if it was visibly causing harm? Would you tell them to really commit to the exercises? What if everyone in your field was giving the same advice and they too were noticing a worsening among approximately 30-50% of their patients? Would you double down, even when the initial research that made you recommend such a treatment was based on shoddy science? Because Angel Keys manipulated the crap out of that data - omitting entirely several nations who ate fairly high fat traditional diets but had good cardiovascular health anyway. Yes, the low fat dogma began to treat heart patients, but it wasn’t so long before low fat at all costs - even when it had to be replaced with sugar - was recommended to everyone. [/quote]

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