My beef is with the fast-and-loose end of the nutritionist spectrum. Correct, anyone can call themselves an IT Consultant, but I’m not sure it’s that relevant. Nutritionists are not all charlatans and there’s clearly no doubt that food is critical to health, performance, longevity, etc.
There’s a deliberate blurring of the boundaries between academia, scientific rigour and commerce. They’re generally long on assertion, but short on evidence. My best friend’s daughter studied with Professor Patrick Holford at the ‘Institute for Optimum Nutrition’. I wish she hadn’t, but it doesn’t make her a bad person.
Nutritionist is so broad a term, it’s essentially meaningless, the well-meaning man in my local health food shop is a nutritionist. Or a shopkeeper with a lot of tablets to sell. And you still haven’t convinced me Ben Goldacre is a washed up medic.