mg, I agree that nutrition is far more complex than much of what issues from doctors' offices and their organizations, but I encourage you to learn more about nutrition from the athletic side because ahtletes know their stuff-- they live it-- and they come from all body types, all metabolic "issues" and disorders, and all ages. And they have research to support it.

Many people are still stuck in the "I can't" do this or that mode, because they hear and reject the mass media's coverage of "official" (MD-driven) "facts." These folks are so often unaware of the relatively easy path of "Here's how I can" reach their fitness, sport, or weight goals-- that path is nebulously "summarized" in the doc's office under "lifestyle changes" they are usually unable to expand upon. But the information is all readily available in Sports Nutrition.

I'm very fortunate to have found a RD (registered dietician) here some years ago who also ran track and, by the time I knew her, had become the local uni track team's nutrition advisor. She started me on this Sports Nutrition path back when the Internet was a little harder to wring info out of-- Despite my medical and metabolic problems later in life, I had been and still considered myself an athlete. My workouts were more "athlete" in style and intensity than "fitness."

That info was hard to come by in those days, and expensive to find if you could find it at all. Most RDs were focused on the AMA-style of prescribing starvation, and my metabolism issues of course worsened under their "care." But now, any runner, cyclist, or swimming community is chock full of that information. (Just like Mudcat is chock full of folk music.)

It's in print, too. Last night I had the opportunity to cull the files of the fitness bulletin board our little local fitness center has, which consist of years of articles from various sport and fitness publications. And there is all the same Sports Nutrition information, from a hundred angles.

So the information is out there, if you want to update what you think about "some people." And if you yourself are one of those people-- there is some real good news waiting for you out there, as well as right here, upthread.

~Susan