The Washington Post calls out “anti-diet” influencers for promoting obesity.

I am going to be straight with you, this article was a bit all over the shop.
There is too much to discuss for one video.

Part of it implies that “anti-diet” Dietitians are dangerous because they are hindering people from improving their health.

There is an example of someone who said they followed “anti-diet” advice, gained a lot of weight very quickly and started worrying about her health.

And some “anti-diet” dietitians are receiving pay cheques from big food companies to promote their products, like doing paid brand deals with General Mills to talk about Cocoa Puffs.

On the surface, this sounds ludicrous to a lot of people.

But I think it’s important to put it into context.

A lot of people are “unsuccessful dieters”. They sacrifice their health to follow crash diets and part of a possible reason for that is extreme food restriction. I am not an “anti-diet” person, but even I talk about why avoiding certain foods might not always be helpful.

So, Dietitians talking about eating cereal isn’t actually as mischievous and malicious as this article makes it sound. Sometimes it’s simply just about promoting you being at peace with food, you know?

Now of course, there are always extremists with any dietary movement and it is easy to criticise anti-diet Dietitians who say things like there are *zero* health risks associated with having higher body fat percentages.

Something even a popular author (Christy Harrison) admitted she would reword if she wrote the book today.

In my opinion, there are a lot of benefits of a more weight-neutral approach to health, so it would be a shame for this article to distort your view of what a lot of “anti-diet” Dietitians stand for.

Does that make sense?

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