Episode 40: The Not So Up-Beet Dietitians Segment #1
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Participant #1:
Hi, friends.
Participant #1:
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the up-beet Dietitians podcast. Have you probably noticed by this wonky lighting and this wonky quality of camera? We are together at least, and we are going to film a very fun episode today. Yeah. Kind of one of the ones we've been anticipating the most because we just have so much material for it. Yes. If you guys aren't watching and have no idea what the lighting looks like, don't look. Hi, I'm here with Emily in person today. We're sharing a microphone, so that is a twice in a lifetime opportunity. Yeah, two times in more than 2020. But we didn't have a podcast in. This is going well, right? You guys are in for a treat. Well, let's just jump right into it because we have pages and pages of notes and we're already telling you now, this is part one of probably a million part series. And today, as I'm sure you could tell by the title, The Not So Upbeat Dietitians, we are going to be sharing that micro technical difficulties we are going to be sharing discussing laughing at. So we can all laugh at this together. Some of our favorite hate comments. These range from attacking what we say, attacking what we look like, just being mean in general, and then also the people that, of course are like, you're wrong. If you're mean to us, we imagine your voice sounds like that. That's how I know. But also part of what will also make very fun. As you can probably also tell, I'm not coherent because we've started drinking these wins. I have an Aldi Advent calendar of wines and I always do this every year where I'm like, oh, I love wine. And I forgot how much I hate drinking every day. So I started on day one, and now it's December 10, and we have nine mini bottles of wine. So we already started kind of the first half on our Instagram Live. You caught that over there. But now we're going to finish the second half just kind of jerk, whatever we want, because this is a wild episode in New York. We're going to need some wild rides in here. Yeah. We are not doing our typical scripted episode today. We're just talking about our crazy comments, talking about why they're crazy and also drinking wine while doing so Amber in person. So literally everything about this is nothing like every other episode. Yeah. This is a fun one. Yeah. So let's jump right into it, though. Let's start with trying on the next line. Oh, yeah. Okay. So this is December 1234. We've been naming them off of which day they were in the Advent calendar. 2345. December 7 7th is a rose. California rose. Is that going the white or the red? White. Emily has red and white glasses, essential for wine tasting. I feel like you're going to like this one. It's sweet.
Participant #1:
That one kind of has, like, a lemony taste rose. So let's jump right into it. Okay. Should we start with Herbalife or save that one? Because you're going to do it for a life. Let's do parts of Herbalife. Okay, let's start off small. Okay, sounds. I'm good. Going to start off with a ticket one. These are a bit shorter. Yours are so much angrier than mine. Hannah's attracted a lot more angry people, so that's hence the meaner comments. Let's start with one of my mine. So one of my favorite comments. I'm going to do this last one. Okay. I shared that this is a YouTube comment, and all of these are public comments. So we're not going to say anyone's names, but very easy to find their information. You got those Detective skills. So one of my favorite ones is from YouTube. And listen hear what they say. I think it was on a video. I was talking about different types of carbs. The question was if potatoes, countless carbs, stuff like that. So the comment was, Hi, Emily. No. Should we read the invoices or would that make it? Yes, let's read it. How we imagine this person. Imagine this person looking like, I also know this person's name, so that's how I can we're also basing off a name. Hi, Emily. I think you need to think this through. If your clients are trying to lose weight, potatoes are a horrible carbohydrate source and they have virtually no dietary fiber fibers.
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If your clients want to gain weight, they are a good carbohydrate source. Sorry. If you took regular nutrition training, you aren't qualified to give nutritional advice. I love when they say sorry, but they clearly are not one bit. Sorry does not take away any of the offense it actually makes it worse. Yeah. So, yeah, let's talk about this. You can eat potatoes whether you want to lose weight, gain weight or have no preference over what happens to your weight. There's no single food that contributes to the number on the scale individually. Yeah. Potatoes will not make you gain weight and will be all they're actually not even the high calories comparatively. Yeah. It's more so when you eat copious amounts of them or like you add stuff to them, then it's a bit higher in calories. Right. Or if they're like in the form of a French Fry, then. Yeah. They're going to be higher in calories and saturated fat than like a baked potato. Yeah. But you cannot blame potatoes for weight gain or pasta or bread or anything. No. My favorite part of this was my regular nutrition training,
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not the six years and tens of thousands of dollars I have put so much, hundreds of thousands of dollars for nutrition training. Nutrition training. Anyway, let's move to another one. I got a few good ones. Let's stick with Tik Tok. I had one video that went pretty viral where I ate a bagel. It was very controversial. That was one of the worst comment sections I've ever seen, which surprises me. It did not reach the right audience at all. Yeah. So I think I have probably 50 written down that I could just rattle through, but that takes forever. So let's just kind of pick a few. Yeah. My favorite one, I think, was when the person said that us dietitians are just cuddling people and appealing to Big Pharma's agenda. What they said was, well, here I'll kind of do a backstory. So I'm eating a bagel in the video, and I'm saying that you can eat a bagel. Nothing bad is going to happen. You're going to be fine. Eat the bagel. It's absolutely fine. There needs to be no guilt around that. And this person said and I guess I'll use their voice because all my attention do these days is try to coddle people and appeal to Big Pharma's agenda.
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Yes. With the little hand slip like Emily just did, because Big Pharma is really paying. Yes. If Big Pharma was paying us,
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we would drinking like we would be drinking $100 champagne. Yeah. Not like plastic bottle wine, which is actually delicious. And I'm very excited about it. But even if I did have a lot of money, I know this is still amazing. No. I made a whole video actually responding to this comment because I had so much to say about it. Big Pharma is not paying us a dime. They didn't pay for education. They're not funding our credentialing people. We have no association with Big Pharma whatsoever. That's not a thing. We don't get paid anything that I think someone who gets big borrow money is getting. Oh, not even close. No. While we're in this video, here's a few others. So said the skinny girl. Because if you eat a bagel and you live in a skinny body, that's good. But if I was in a larger body eating a bagel and posting about it, that would have been a very bad thing, according to those comments here. And like a potato thing, if you eat a bagel, it automatically makes you gain £30. Because that's how it works. Yeah. This one said, scoop that bagel less carbs and just as tasty. No, it is not just as tasty. What do you do with all that? That's wasteful. Yeah. Also, you're probably cutting out like 10 grams of carbs. Like just eat the this person said, then I'll get fat. Lots of people said, no, I can't. I'm diabetic. I don't want to become diabetic. I don't want to raise my cholesterol. I don't want to die of heart disease. Don't want to raise my blood sugars. You can be a diabetic and eat a bagel. Oh, yeah. One food is not going to cause diabetes. Exactly. Just like it wouldn't cause your weight to go up £30 for your cardiovascular health to get bad or like lipid level stories. No. If you're diabetic and you do have sugars that are maybe a little uncontrolled, perhaps do half a bagel and have some kind of protein with it. Don't be afraid of the cream cheese. Some peanut butter cream cheese. Yeah. Have an egg with it. That sounds so good right now. Yeah. This is our life. This is not much turn into US Questioning Our Life Choices podcast. Okay, let's move on from the bagel video and go back to one of Emily's. You can always come back to mine. I don't have many listed because people are just randomly mine don't get as much hostility, which is kind of weird. Oh, this is in response to a Keto video. Don't really need much explanation for that. It's just essentially the promise was don't do Keto. Someone said, what did I say? Actually, I need contacts for this comment. Keto was created for epilepsy epileptic patients, typically children. That was why kind of the Keto diet was created. And I was talking about how it was not made for the general public. Background contacts. So this person said, no one created the diet. It's a great diet to take away problems caused by sugar. Also at losing water, weight and waist size. Feels good, too. What feels good about taking out carbs? No, that's not a subjective question. That's objective. Yeah. I don't want to take on all my fruits, vegetables, grains and sweets. Yeah. Good luck going to the bathroom. Not going to the bathroom. No. Your poops would be terrible. Anyone who's done Keto can attest to that. Constipation for everyone. Yes. You get constipation and you get constipation. Also, the guy was created. These things don't just spawn. No. What do you think? Like, there wouldn't be a Leo just one day. There wouldn't be thousand people doing it if it wasn't created. It doesn't make any sense. It wasn't created. I'm like, all diets are created usually by some crack that doesn't deserve to be talking about diets. Yeah. Also, we shouldn't do another wine. Yeah. Next up, we have Snowbury blend, raspberry. Looks like a rose kind of thing. Hands are getting sweaty. Okay. I can't even open his hands. I have a glove if you need it. Don't worry
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for ASMR. I don't know if you guys heard that or not. I guess we'll find out what?
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Why you don't do it. Yeah. No, I could not take myself seriously doing that. It feels like bath and body works. This is juice. That one's good. It's my favorite so far. That one's winning. This is literally juice. I hope for you there's other, like, fruity flavors in there. Yeah, I feel like they definitely will be. There's only just one. That one's good. This isn't me. I wanted to get the ASMR.
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This podcast is riveting today. Okay. Should we get into Herbalize? Yeah, because I don't have much material. Hopefully give me some hate comments. So I am. If not, I have enough for both of us. Sure. Okay. So I have two YouTube videos that I posted that have gotten like a relatively good amount of views. And that means that a lot of comments have come along with that. One of them was on Optavia, which, if you don't know, is a very low calorie diet peering scheme. You got a code. I don't know anything about it, really. I have so many patients that do it. It's crazy. Everyone does Weight Watchers. We should do a Weight Watchers episode. We should do new. I have a new YouTube video. Oh, go watch. Go watch that. But we'll also make a podcast episode. Okay. But anyway, everywhere Optavia is a video that I posted. And that one has a lot of comments that we can go over too, if we want to. But herbal life is the one I really want to talk about. So in the video, I explain what herbal life is. Why I don't think it's a good thing. And I'm talking mostly about their nutrition shops. They have so Herbalife has been around forever. But these nutrition shops are kind of newer. I didn't know that. I thought herbal life was dead. It's supposed to be dead because when I posted about it, people are like, herbal life is still alive. Yeah. It's like the shops opening up everywhere. What if I have them around here? They're like, weird. I probably just haven't noticed him. Yeah. The ones around us are like, what's one? It's like core nutrition. Be. Well, nutrition. They all have a weird. Yes. In the video, I explained all the rules. They have like, you can't take the drinks out of the store. They're usually like in weird strip malls and they don't have any signage. They're very sketchy and weird. I don't explain all that in the video.
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One moment, please. Oh, my gosh. Ok, we are back. We have cleaned up the spill. The best tasting wine went everywhere. It's okay. We still have two more. And we actually have half bottles of literally everyone. So it's not like we're having a wine shortage. I poured all mine out on the table.
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Okay. Anyway, talking about Herbalife, I posted a video and all the Herbalife boss Babes came after me. They ripped me to shreds. And of course, most of what they said was completely supportive of my comments or my statement that I made. I'm saying, like, most of what they said, the comments, the boss Babes, most of the boss Babes. Like what they said made it even more clear that it's like a pyramids. Oh, I see. They are so in deep. They don't even see the problem with it. This one is so dramatic. I'm going to do it in what I believe her accent or her voice would sound like. Okay, why would anyone subscribe to a person who built the following? Putting other entrepreneurs down, I say everyone unsubscribe. This isn't all caps. Quick before your mind is filled with hate. This girl is a hater. You all know what it feels like to be wrongly accused of something and to be bullied. Tell me you recognize this in her videos. All caps. Hurry, unsubscribe before you're infected too. She's got no idea what she's talking about. Even billionaires on Wall Street ran from Herbal Life. Hannah Thompson doesn't have the mindset of a positive person. Leave immediately. Save yourself. You'd think like you told them to go drink Bleachers, right? Or like, go murder people or something. Like I'm some terrible negative cult leader. No, I'm just saying don't go to the Herbal Life shops and buy their shakes because they have been linked to liver toxicity. And you're supporting a pyramid scheme, not to mention diet culture for that research. Ask them for those randomized clinical trials. Yeah, I'm sure they don't have any. Except for the ones that show that they were linked to liver toxicity. Another one. It is sad that a bright girl like you has to lower yourself talking nonsense about a product you have. I know. Me too, about a product. You don't have enough information in order to promote your services. If it sounds like it makes no sense because it doesn't make any sense. Next time you made another video, please get more accurate information. It seems like you lack a lot of knowledge. You are very welcome to walk in any Herbal Life club. Wish you the best in your business. Like I clearly stated in the video, I would never go into one of those clubs. But thank you for the invite. This one bashes dietitians as a whole. Oh, I love those. Yeah, she's wrong and everything she said. Dietitians spelled incorrectly have old information, not cutting edge science school curriculums in College can't keep changing what they teach. It would be too expensive. So they teach the same antiquated information since the 70s. She probably still uses BMI as a measuring tool. Hahaha. Don't be fooled by the title. Dietitian or nutritionist. They usually have really old info. This was Jim Parks. I'm going to say his name. The guy who he is your biggest fan. He hates me. He hates me. He left probably like 50 comments fighting what's, like eating my dad? Yes, because of Jim. This is my most viewed video. Jim is actually a social media manager. He is boosting your post. He knows what he's doing. Jim, have you listened to any of my other videos? You know, I don't use BMI. And then I'm very against BMI. Yeah. Also, we act like we're not people like critical thought and reading up to date research by having a mind of our own. Like, we did go to a school that is huge into research and teaching how to understand research. But even if we didn't, after we graduate from Zed College, we still have the ability and we're actually encouraged to read the cutting edge research that you say I have no idea about. Yeah. Okay, one more before we maybe go back to one of yours. Emily, if you want to. This is from Spill the Positivity. I love her. This is the epitome of bad research combined with hater juice.
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They do have official websites, by the way. And what's wrong with a small business owner selling healthy treats? It's basically what McDonald's has done for years. And you probably eat there often and not know what's inside their food. Lol. Plus you will probably get liver disease from drinking white claws. Oh, yeah. And what's up with the dog tie around your head? Okay, a few things. Her username is still the positivity. Which, first of all, why not do positivity? But the reason it's positive T is because she's still over life. Ts. Okay. I had a headband on, which apparently like a dog tag or a dog tie. Whatever. It wasn't a good look, I admit, but still didn't think it was bad. Don't insult my look. Insult my intelligence. You're going to really try out my feelings. There was one thing. What did you say? What did you say? The white claws or McDonald's white claws. The white claws. And she talks about liver and like. Yeah, excessive consumption of alcohol will affect your liver. Any excessive alcohol over a long period of time will affect your liver. Right. I would never argue that liver that alcohol is good for you. Yeah. It's like, where do these claims come from? For me, it's the McDonald's. There's probably three or four comments on this Herbalife video that are people saying that since I don't support Herbalife, I must support McDonald's. So it's like one or the other. There's Herbalife and there's McDonald's. And those are the spectrums of health. Yeah. Friends. There's no in between herbal life is the best thing. It's at the top and McDonald's is at the bottom and McDonald's should know it. Then I either tell clients to go to McDonald's or go get Herbalife. And that is the only option. Two recommendations of that. I'm not kidding. There were so many that's like their only argument. That doesn't make any sense. How like the only other option is McDonald. Right. And at least McDonald's in a pyramid scheme. At least if I go there, I'm just supporting some old rich white guy. Probably. It's like, here's some easy food, right? Cheap and not hard to make. And it's not a scam where, yes, they're not trying to sell you. The only thing they're selling you is literally they're not trying to sell you something with help. Mcdonald's nose. It's burning. It's not like this is going to optimize your kidney function. No. They're like, here's some cheap food. Yeah. You can't make dinner tonight. Great. Get a burger and fries for like $3. Yeah.
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Okay. Well, I've got a lot where that comes from. But Emily, any others that you would like to share? Let me check. Most of mine are like saying, just, no one cares. Those aren't as fun. It's just like they really think they did something with that. Let's see. I guess one of the other ones I talked about, I think I made a TikTok video about how people will listen to anyone Besides dietitians who have like five plus years of education and nutrition. I was talking about essentially, like our College education. Very basic. You need some type of College education to be a dietitian, whether it's like undergrad graduate, whatnot? And this person says a lot of things I learned in College later. Redacted just false. It was a very weird comment because I was like, are you trying to imply, like it seemed like they're trying to imply that what you learned in College can be false right now. And I'm like, what am I? A lot of things that's the beauty of science is science is always changing, but there are also basics that do not change that. We have been studying for hundreds of years and we have those kind of down pretty well. So it was just a weird comment sometimes. Also, I don't know what your thoughts are, but I just imagine like, someone pob you're watching me scroll through TikTok videos and you're like, scrolling through something you're like, I don't agree with that. I must share my opinion and tell them their opinion is education is worthless. What is the motivation behind that? If I don't like a video, I just don't. I scroll down past it. The biggest thing is I'm like, I'm not giving you them a view even though we scrolling on it gives them a view. But I'm like, I'm not giving them a full view. Right. Their watch time is going to be so down after this. Yeah. Alone is not going to like their video and then we move on. Right? Because when you guys not you guys, you guys who listen to the podcast probably really support us, which we love. Yeah. Anyone who comments on these videos is only helping us. When you do that, when you comment, you boost the algorithm. That's how it works on every single social media platform. Right. So then it will get seen by others who hopefully do actually like our video and helps our business. It's just very odd to me. The entire premise behind this doesn't have to do with what specifically wrote, but the entire premise behind hate comments. I don't know if I call them hate comments, but I wrote recently some slightly aggressive comments on someone, but it was because they went after all dietitians and we're just kind of fear mongering all these different foods. And I was very passionate. I was like, this is just not correct. You should stop. You're monitoring these foods and making claims that are not evidence based and scientifically backed. I don't know if I can say that like a hate. No, you don't attack her. You just attack her comment in her content. It's not like you said she. I'm not saying, like, your education is dumb. Even though. Even though Fred ability like holistic nutritionist, which means absolutely nothing. But I did not point that out. Who knows? Future me might be more spiteful. So we don't know. But it was just like, the entire premise of these are very confusing to me because especially, I guess the Herbal Life hate comments are very much more like defending their company. But it's because have some critical thought and think about what you're supporting. Right. Just because we're dietitian doesn't mean we stand behind everything like CDR posts or the Academy of Nutrition dietagics post, because we think critically and we're not just going to follow them with whatever they say. Right? Yeah, that's a good point. Just because Herbal Life is like your employer or whatever doesn't mean you have to agree with everything they say and be like their number one advocate and go after anyone who they're not paying you to make those comments. Right. They're not going to pay you anymore selling any more product because you went to Ham Thompson's YouTube channel and said 18 giant sentences that were mean. Even though your name is Positivity. Positivity. Such a bad name. Such a bad name. Yeah. Okay. I keep forgetting. Let's do another wine. What day is it? I need the glove. My hands are sweaty because this is ten
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opening this. My fat hands on fitness glove. Okay. You're strong, muscular hands. Oh, yeah. Sorry, I'm not body shaving my hands. Strong, muscular hands. Yes. Let's see. There's another one. I wanted to say that again. Makes fun of dietitians. Oh, here it is. Okay. This is also on the Herbal Life video. Horrible review. Very biased onesided. Useless. And from an uneducated sketchy nutritionist
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does that sound real, guys?
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Very light. It's like clear water. Chardonnay, some yellow water. Yummy. Okay,
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Emily just spilled on herself again. At least it wasn't on her computer this time. Number one, Brendan spilled an entire thing of soft on his computer. Go listen to that episode if you haven't with Brendan. Adam, that was a great one. Yeah. I wouldn't call myself a sketchy nutritionist. I wouldn't call myself a nutritionist. First of all, maybe a sketchy dietitian. I'd say I'm a sketchy dietitian. What are you doing? I'm sketchy. I can't tell you because then it wouldn't be sketchy.
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I can't even think of a secret is the funny part. That just proves how I'm not sketchy. I am. I can't think of some dietitian things. My dietitian secret is I'm a secret. Intimate Aster. But that's more accidental because I like eating at 04:00 P.m. Sometimes. I don't know. I can't even say I accidentally do keto because I have carbs, like every meal. If I have, like, a string cheese as a snack, does that mean I'm keto?
Participant #1:
I can't think of anything sketchy that I do. I think mine is just in passing. Yeah, I guess you're the sketchy dietitian.
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Okay. Are there any others that we want to go over? Should we just save those for another day? Because there's a lot to go. We have no idea how long this has been going because of my accident for where I spilled all that wine. Well, let's drink our last one and then we will say two to Lou and see you in the next episode. We are ending with a reasoning, shall we? Bet you're going to like this one. You can also just do it from the outside. And why? Because my hands don't cut in the glove. Wrong hands. Yeah, hands. I can dumbbell.
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I don't think dumbbell and barbell are verbs.
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Okay.
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We did not like the rose is okay. Not as good as the raspberry. Oh, yeah. You don't like this one? Not as sweet as the raspberry.
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Oh, that might even be the raspberry. That's really good. You're right. All right. Yes. Day ten is the best one. I would say my favorite is day two.
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All red lovers out there. All these Mary red California wine. Red wine. We also have. I don't know if we're ready to put our whiskey and Malibu, but we should probably save those for another time. Maybe we'll do them tomorrow in Chicago. Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. That was a good idea to keep us warm. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you guys so much for listening to this episode. We know that we probably sound like weird and tired and kind of. Yeah, it's been a weird day. It's been a weird day. We've done a lot of weird things. Yes, we have. Well, if you guys want to hear more of our lovely comments, we would glad they do another episode of these. I'm sure we'll just keep accumulating comments to go over you. And just remember, even if you leave a hate comment, not only are you boosting our post, you're also now giving us podcast material. So thank you for that. Thank you. You're doing a service. Our feelings are not hurt. At least mine are. I'm sensitive. I was at first, but now I'm like, cool, this person hates me. I think it's because I stopped getting hate comments and then I thought people liked me. That wasn't my problem. I just need consistent hate comments so I become insensitive. There you go, guys. Send your hate comments my way, please so I can snooze through. Sometimes I need to be sensitive. I'm too sensitive. Yes. All right, guys, we will see you in the next one. Thanks for joining us. All right, bye, everyone. Bye.
