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Originally Posted by vreihen16
When I was in the hospital about 10 years ago, they would not release me until I sat through multiple lectures from a nutritionist. It was apparently required by hospital policy. No salt, no cheese, no potted meats, chinese food is evil, only whole grains, etc. I have lived that life (if you can call it living) ever since.
We had a half-day employee wellness seminar where I work a few weeks ago. Start out with a healthy catered lunch, and then into all kinds of breakout sessions about various health/exercise topics for the rest of the afternoon.
The "healthy" catered lunch would have sent that nutritionist into a tizzy. Frozen turkey burgers and veggie burgers served on white hamburger rolls, teriyaki chicken (sodium bombs away!) with a ladle to slop extra sauce onto your plate, pasta salad, fruit salad, and oatmeal raisin cookies. The drink choices were water or sweetened iced tea. Most important omission is the complete lack of vegetables (either cooked or raw) and absolutely no green salads. Each item included a plaque about why it was a healthier choice, when in reality it was all feel-good substitutions that had just as many salt/sugar/carbs as the item it was replacing.
Long story short, one of my pet peeves is people who fall for "all natural" or "healthy" advertising without looking at the actual nutritional data to see *why* it is better (or worse!) for you.....
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Lol....we have those too!
It's put on buy our "Health Nurse" at work. I never participate in the lunches or "Healthy Breaks". I do my own thing. I find it funny that I know more about nutrition, insulin resistance, partitioning ratios, etc than my "Health Nurse".
And once a year they pull out the little handheld bodyfat monitor. This year it occurred 2 weeks out from my vacation that I had been dieting for. It listed me at slightly over 15%. I laughed about it as I've told her for years it was a bogus piece of equipment, and that I could manipulate the numbers with just water consumption.
She was insistent it worked. Meanwhile two days earlier at the gym, I had just had a 7 site caliper "pinch" that put me at 7.4%.