Pulls my ears
Pulls my ears
NOTE: I hate my ears pulled. I have had cauliflower ear multiple times and it just really sucks. It sucks to have it and it sucks to get it drained.
Something that really pulls my ears is when people come in and tell me their nutrition is fine because “I took nutrition in college.”
Really.
So you took one class or maybe even a semester of nutrition classes and you dub yourself as knowing enough about nutrition that you don’t need someone else to go over it with you.
Hmmm…you can get a doctorate in nutrition which is approximately 8 years of school. There is enough information to learn about food and nutrition to warrant 8 years of schooling and you’re going to tell me that you got it all down with your “Intro to Nutrition 101” class.
It is an insult to anyone that seriously looks at how the body works as it relates to nutrition for someone outside that field to say “I took some classes in school so I am good on my diet.” You might know what protein is (Did you know that protein is one of the most metabolically active nutrients and that your body will typically not store excess protein as fat or that protein is a high acidic food and that it raises PH levels in the body which have to be buffered down by way of extra veggies?) or that it has 4 calories per gram.
You might know what fat is (Did you know that fat is an essential nutrient for proper brain development as well as proper hormone production? Did you also know that a high fat diet has a higher success rate then a high carb diet?) and that it contains 9 calories per gram.
I am sure you went over what a carb is (did you know that carbs are the only nutrient that we do not need to get externally in our diet and that our body will make carbs from protein and fat? Did you also know that processed carbs cause your body to retain water and increase the inflammatory enzymes in your body?) and that it contains 4 calories per gram.
How about alcohol? (7 calories per gram, your body treats it like a poison and therefore increases your metabolism when small amounts of alcohol are present.)
What about what a “pro” and “anti” inflammatory diet is?
Do you know what ORAC is? (Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity, i.e. the degree that a food helps fight oxidization)
Do you know what antioxidants are and what they do in the body or why they are important?
No. You probably don’t, so you should probably shut up about the whole “I took a nutrition class in college”. I took a class FOR MY MAJOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE. Actually I took three classes, nutrition and sports, intro to nutrition and aging and nutrition. I didn’t take a nutrition class to fill an elective. I took it because I had too.
