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To further enlighten our readers with your critique of my thoughts and opinions on mainstream doctors. Here are my answers to the points that you have raised. Why would you consult doctors about your diet and nutrition when only approximately 6% of those doctors have training in nutrition? Here is a quote of an article written by a doctor that've I found: “In medical school I had not received any significant instruction on the subject. I was not alone. Only approximately 6 percent of the graduating physicians in the United States have any training in nutrition. Medical students may take elective courses on the topic, but few actually do… the education of most physicians is disease-oriented with a heavy emphasis on pharmaceuticals — we learn about drugs and why and when to use them.” Here is the full link, for those interested on reading the remaining article here. All comments, are welcome if you have read the article and understand the facts being raised in there. Well, their "professional opinions" are biased because 1) MOST don't have formal education, never mind experience in nutrition and how would they even go about to prescribe a remedy, other than telling the patient to take a pill. 2) I'm not saying that ALL doctors are nutritionally illiterate, just pointing out to the fact that 94% of them are. Medical professionals like Dr.Mercola are rare, those are the doctors who have researched and know their stuff. Yes, I'm sure they do care, and are compassionate doctors, but doesn't mean they can't be used as pawns or tools to promote pharmaceuticals drugs on uninformed public. Case in point with this is Dr. Mercola, he thought he was doing a great service by informing the public about a certain medication that can help diabetes, only to find out that the drug companies were using him and his name to champion their drug. He only realized this when he researched further into the drug. However, now that he is aware of how deceptive this drug companies are in their tactics in reaching and influencing the public to use their drugs, he has adopted a "holistic" and more "natural" approach to medicine. I'm only using Mercola as an example because he's one of the easily recognizable doctors out there for people to relate too. Well, this is a very generic statement, what exactly were they practicing that you deemed phony, illegitimate and disingenuous? Just makes sense to me to ask for advice from people who are experienced, trained or at least knowledgeable in what they are talking about. It's kinda pointless asking opinions from people who are not adept or have some type of specialized knowledge in the field. Yes, I do agree what you should ask for some type of credentials, relevant experience or the source of where they are getting this information from. Yes, I am aware that my opinions are biased and less favorable towards mainstream pharmaceutical doctors, who wouldn't be knowing that only 6% of them are actually literate in nutrition. Personally, if I'm going to take a doctor's opinion about what I ought or not eat, I would hope to expect that the physician knows more about macronutrients and micronutrients than me.

For the most part, I would agree with PaliRichard and his post except for going to the doctors. Doctors know very little about nutrition, they are the last people you should go to. They'll probably prescribe a pill for you to put on the weight, knowing how they work. Unless, of course the doctor is holistic and promotes "natural" and organic way of living, but I highly doubt there are many doctors out there who are promoting this way of living. Most fall in the mainstream, pharmaceutical payroll, prescribing a pill for very ill. Being a nutrition expert, a personal trainer and fitness competitor. I don't like to give generic fitness and nutrition advice because everybody's body and nutrition type is different. Not to mention, there is very little detail about your lifestyle and the cause of the stress to properly access the problem. You have specific problem, you need to go to a specific person with specific knowledge of your problem to find the solution. Going to forum to ask for some direction is a start, but none of the folks are nutritionist or people in the health or fitness profession. So, obviously you have to consider your sources. I can give you some advice and tips, since I happen to be educated in that field, you can contact me at [email protected]

Beckysmith18, SlimFast will work for the first week (at best). Your body will begin to plateau after that. Your body is a very smart system, if you're only feeding it 600 calories a day, it will adjust your metabolism, decreasing the rate, so your body doesn't starve. Most of the weight loss will be muscle and water, and a lil bit of fat. SlimFast is full of sugar and artificial vitamins, I don't know how that can ever be healthy for your body. You're welcome to join me in a conference call to become nutritional literate and learn alternative ways to lose weight. I'm offering a 30 min FREE conference call on Monday 7pm skype for those interested in becoming nutritionally literate on how to lose weight. For those interested, just send me an email at [email protected] for an RSVP.

Hi Buffy2006, I suspect the reason why your weight is not going down is because you might not be consuming the right type of food groups and combination. The reason why the exercising is not helping is probably they might be the wrong type of exercises, not enough intensity and not knowing the order of exercises to do them in. Since, I don't know your lifestyle all that well, this is just a very superficial analysis of where the issues may be. If you want a detailed explanation (I'll need to understand your lifestyle first), you drop me an email at [email protected]. I work and train people with your issues all the time, I'll be happy to provide some advice and pointers.

I have a problem with all these diet programs, and quick weight lost schemes, yes, even Weight Watchers. The main reason why I have a problem with all these programs is that they don't address the fundamental issue of losing weight and being healthier. The fundamental issue is that people need to become nutritionally literate, so they can make better choices for themselves and pass this information on to their family. Let me address One of the common program out there and my main concern with them: Weight watchers - Yes, the program works, however Weight Watchers doesn't educated their clients to make healthier lifestyle choices. As long as you stay below their point system, you will lose the weight. So, you can put all the junk you want in your system, as long as you are below your total daily allowance of points. You are ok. Well, I'm not Ok with telling my clients to put cancer causing food in their system. I'm not OK with telling them to eat GMO food, knowing that it causes sterility and cancer. I'm not OK with telling them to eat additives and flavor enhancers that fry your neurons. Apparently, Weight Watchers is OK with this. Weight Watchers DO NOT educate their clients on any of the fundamentals of nutrition, because if you knew and understood the fundamental of nutrition you wouldn't become DEPENDENT on their stupid point system. My work is to EDUCATE people to become nutritionally literate, so they make healthier choices for themselves without going into extreme ridiculous programs that are not sustainable. I'm offering a 30 min FREE conference call on skype Mondays 7pm for those interested in becoming nutritionally literate. For those interested, just send me an email at [email protected] for an RSVP.

Hi folks! I thought I'd clear up all the misconceptions about losing weight, I am an expert in this field. I'm elite personal trainer and I do fitness shows. I love helping people who are struggling to lose weight and who really need the guidance. I'm ready to share my knowledge, tips and info to you folks! ..