By no means am I bashing your intelligence. You have every right to have an opinion about nutrition and diet, and I applaud you for even using your brain to think about diet. I want you to use those same brain cells to think about the question I just asked you in the title of today’s post. Ok, you done thinking critically? Good.

Sharing opinions is what makes mankind great. Our ability to think, imagine, create, and inspire. Nutrition has an interesting perception as a subject, because it seemingly allows anybody to define it.

We must all try to remember that Nutrition is a science, and food is the art. These should not be confused. The properties of that food affect our body, and affect our ability to achieve certain physical attributes. The food we eat is made of molecules, which no-matter how you carve it remain the same regardless of their source.  The question to ask should attempt to define what molecules are in the food, and why they are there.

This is the ultimate point of confusion, and the downfall of nutrition as a subject of facts, and the growth of it as a matter of opinion. Does one piece of meat, vegetable, or grain have different molecules then the next?  This my friends, is a gray area, and thus a matter of opinion. This is why there are hundreds of supplements, diets, and other fringe information.

So, what should we do. Well, I can think of a couple of gray area professions that seem to work out just fine, but I only need to say one of them for you to understand my point: Medicine. Doctors are important people that don’t need your opinion to change the fact that they are experts. Nutrition should be the same way, but it is most certainly not the case at the moment.

Bottom line, you don’t have an opinion about why you are on anti-biotics, or why your plumber fixed your toilet do you? You trust them to do their job, and not to give you advice about other things…. like nutrition.

Trust your nutritionist. They went to school to learn this crazy subject and deserve your respect for it. With that said, if your “nutritionist” does not have an absolute minimum of a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, then run away screaming right now…. I’m serious…. RUN!

If your nutritionist couldn’t dedicate themselves to learn nutrition from a university then they have no business working with you and causing confusion in an already confusing subject.

Happy Monday!