This afternoon, my friend Christy and I will be meeting with a running coach. I am looking for someone to critique my form (which I know is awful) and give me feedback and tips on my current training schedule. For you see, I know my own personal/professional limitations. Although I have been a certified aerobics instructor and have done aerobics for 20 years now,I know that there are times in my life I need to seek the input of someone who has more training/education/experience than me on a certain topic.
Sadly, no one give me this professional courtesy.
For you see, I am cranky today, because once again, no one views me as the nutrition expert. Four years of undergrad work, a year internship at Yale, my masters in human nutrition and 11 years of work experience-and, well, everyone else is an expert in nutrition. Clearly, since we all eat, everyone must know everything about food.
Don't get me wrong-I definately don't know about all aspects of nutrition-no one can. That's why there is specialization. But come on, give me a little bit of credit. Please.
I was trying to come up with other examples, similar to "just because you eat, doesn't make you a dietitian."
Leave it to my sister to amuse me and cheer me up:
Everyone breathes, doesn't make them a respiratory specialist
Everyone poops, doesn't make them a proctologist
Everyone spanks their Cooley (or bum, as normal people say) , doesn't make them an exotic dancer
Everyone talks, doesn't mean they're saying anything important.
Or as Joan Cusack says in "Working Girl"-
"Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will."
Sadly, no one give me this professional courtesy.
For you see, I am cranky today, because once again, no one views me as the nutrition expert. Four years of undergrad work, a year internship at Yale, my masters in human nutrition and 11 years of work experience-and, well, everyone else is an expert in nutrition. Clearly, since we all eat, everyone must know everything about food.
Don't get me wrong-I definately don't know about all aspects of nutrition-no one can. That's why there is specialization. But come on, give me a little bit of credit. Please.
I was trying to come up with other examples, similar to "just because you eat, doesn't make you a dietitian."
Leave it to my sister to amuse me and cheer me up:
Everyone breathes, doesn't make them a respiratory specialist
Everyone poops, doesn't make them a proctologist
Everyone spanks their Cooley (or bum, as normal people say) , doesn't make them an exotic dancer
Everyone talks, doesn't mean they're saying anything important.
Or as Joan Cusack says in "Working Girl"-
"Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will."
You said:
ReplyDelete"... everyone else is an expert in nutrition. Clearly, since we all eat, everyone must know everything about food."
How true.
A few months ago, a morbidly obese woman was eating a whole extra large pizza and drinking several cans of Pepsi, while telling me that my successful vegetarian weight loss diet was unhealthy.
She died shortly afterwards.