Blonde spiel here. BMI of 20, loves to move, works with nutrition and obesity. But I have no idea what it’s like to be fat, even though it’s food, obesity and lifestyle that I preach about. And there are many in the industry who are just like me. You see us everywhere as ‘experts’ in areas I had no idea existed. It can apply to supergluten, supergreens, superfoods. And social media is chock-full of various study credits in the field of nutrition and obesity. Nevertheless, Norway lacks expertise. We see this in hospitals, health centres, kindergartens, doctors’ offices, nursing homes, municipalities and schools. Many clinical nutritionists, KEF, are trained, but there are not enough positions. Only a KEF is authorized as a healthcare professional, but anyone can call themselves a ‘nutrition expert’. I’m totally buzzing myself; nutritional therapist, nutritional biologist, dietician, nutritional biopath and more. Who should we trust? Misunderstand me correctly. To be credible in this industry, you must be able to give advice and recommendations based on knowledge based on science, numbers and statistics. But, when a highly educated, blonde nutritionist says and recommends ginger shots before power walking on the morran and scallops dandered over pak choy for dinner, it discourages most people who are considering a lifestyle change. The demand for a full wallet and access to exotic food will be high. I am from the “village”. Zero pak choy here. Or what about when the root of all evil is the eating window or optimal training windows? In my more than 15 years in the specialist health service, I have never met anyone who does not know that it is good to eat apple and oatmeal. Everyone also knows that grandis, beer and crisps sponsor both the fat percentage and sickness absence. Nevertheless, there are many who choose the latter over the former. Knowledge about diet has never been more accessible, but we are more confused than ever. The discrepancy between the ultimate diet and the average diet is enormous. Several decades of research show that all kinds of advice, weight clubs, books, trends and diets have failed to change people’s habits. As a professional, you can possess the finest knowledge of phytins and purines. It helps zero and nothing when dealing with individuals who do not fix this with food and weight, and who also face a lot of condemnation, including from us in the healthcare system. Many professionals do not know what is feasible and important for Ola dunk. Few of us eat enough fish (myself included). The same applies to fruit and vegetables. Obesity, diabetes and lifestyle-related cancer are increasing. Energy drinks are used as thirst quenchers. We get a higher heart rate from buying snacks and bacon than driving to the cabin by car or snowmobile. Ignorant influencers account for much of the marketing, which children and young people gobble up raw. Food and health education at primary school consists of placing a slice of salami on ready-cut bread. Hour finished. Let’s not forget healthy food. Here it is free for companies that are only looking to make money. It’s real not charity or Mother Teresa in pill form. The goal is pure profit. Soda, an energy drink and a burger are on offer. Thanks, politicians. This is bad if we are to get Ola dunk’s diet a little more tidy. Why does knowledge and science not emerge? Nutrition has been/has become a lot of pointing fingers, the industry is dominated by self-taught influencers, weeks of hell, periodically fixed and unattainable recipes where raw dates are dipped in organic almond butter. It’s no wonder that we lose credibility and trust when we recommend homemade hummus on sourdough bread to those who struggle with overeating and have a BMI of 42. It doesn’t help many to ban brown cheese and banana, which are full of fruit sugar, but praise organic raisins. And we can’t make it so difficult that the meat stock in the nursery can only be cooked on fat sheep from the neighboring farm. Dear nutritionists. The solution is not chia seeds for the people, but to adapt advice so that ordinary people can manage to follow them. It could be reducing the dinner portion, cutting out the garlic bread, grabbing the lid or being a sparring partner on the way to something a little better. We nutritionists benefit from having a bowl. Preferably with filling.
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Let’s have a bowl – Speech
