Word: nutritionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leeza seem like the McLaughlin Group. Last week 9,000 of them met in Atlanta for a conference of the American Dietetic Association, and even though the organization hadn't scheduled any Atkins talk for its seminars, it blasted low-carb diets as "a nightmare." JoAnn Hattner, a clinical nutritionist at the UCSF Stanford University Medical Center who attended the conference, worries about the high levels of protein and fat in many of these diets, as well as their lack of fiber. "Removing fiber causes constipation, fluid dehydration, weakness and nausea. It's a great strain on the kidneys...
Pappas gets advice from Lisa Cosman, 60, a self-described nutritionist with no formal training or certification (only 23 states require licensing of dietitians and nutritionists) who relies on news accounts to keep abreast of new research. Cosman warns her clients to visit a doctor before taking herbs and fears that too many are searching for magic bullets. "My concern is that they are overhyping herbs," she says, "and missing the central idea that you must eat healthy...
Additionally, she must work with a physicaltherapist and a nutritionist to prepare her bodyand fashion designers to prepare her ensemble...
...later did Paul learn she had stumbled into "the Zone," which, if its adherents are to be believed, ranks as the biggest weight-loss breakthrough since, well, at least since Sweating to the Oldies. Count Paul as a true believer: she has given up modeling and is now a nutritionist at Sports Club L.A., where she guides her hard-bodied clientele into the Zone at the cost of $100 an hour...
...without much evidence that they will do any good and without considering the harm they might cause. "If you have reason to believe that you are shortchanged on a single nutrient, you have to know what the risks are," she says. "That may require a consultation with a professional nutritionist, not a conversation with your neighbor, a chiropractor or a health-food-store employee." Now if only common sense came in a pill...