As a Registered Dietitian and nutrition professional, I come across a lot of individuals who think that their opinions about nutrition are the "be all end all". Because they have read a book about a fad diet or read an article on the internet, they feel that they are a nutrition expert and a credible source of nutrition information.
David Katz, M.D. and Director of the Yale Preventative Research Center, sums it up perfectly in his Huffington Post article- "When it comes to building airplanes or suspension bridges, we want to hear from the right kinds of highly-trained engineers, not some character who happened to ride in a plane once, or drive across a bridge. When it comes to flying those planes, we want things in the hands of trained pilots -- not some guy with a lot of frequent-flyer miles and strong convictions."
Should society begin disregarding the information coming from non-experts and begin treating nutrition like any other medical profession where people are only interested in speaking with credentialed experts?
Katz ends his article by saying:
"We have created a seething stew of opinion about everything to do with nutrition... that leaves us with far too many cooks, many lacking credentials to be in the kitchen in the first place."
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