Finding smart buys at the health food store

An oxymoron from the dangerous people at Prevention magazine and its dangerous publisher, Rodale.

"Health food stores are booming: 469 new establishments opened between 2005 and 2006, for a total of 35,876 nationwide. Unfortunately, many shoppers believe that everything they sell is healthy — and that the staff is knowledgeable about nutrition. Neither is necessarily true. I should know. I owned a health food store for many years before becoming a registered dietitian (RD)."

Now here's comfort x 2.

First, this irresponsible person knowingly misinformed people (arguably as the moment of epiphany is not stated) in order to make a buck.

Seems like the right person for Rodale and Prevention, the magazine with all the drug ads. If the advice in this crap publication worked, why the Big Pharma adverts?

Second, now this unnamed RD, a member of the nutritional homicide establishment thinks he or she is qualified to offer advice.

"Back then, my 'nutrition smarts' came from popular bestsellers and word-of-mouth advice. Some of the information was valid; a lot wasn't. Today, I'm qualified to help customers safely and healthfully navigate the aisles. Here are the top lessons I wish everyone knew."

Sez who?

BTW, Rodale is a publisher of these bestselling weapons used against you.

Here is some advice from these whores (IMHO. Notice the embedded ads.) and the RD:

"Do gobble up the whole grains
Whole grain products are typically plentiful at these stores, including 100% whole grain burger and hot dog buns, crackers, cereals, pitas, and pastas. These selections make it easy to feed your kids whole grain versions of the foods they love, like pizza or mac 'n' cheese. The stores also stock many frozen whole grain items such as waffles, pancakes, pizza crusts, and meals (like Ethnic Gourmet Chicken Biryani over Brown Rice or Amy's Breakfast Burrito made with a whole grain tortilla)."

Here is the nutritional content of the advertised products:

Ethnic Gourmet Chicken Biryani over Brown Rice. It is also here and different. (By the way, try to find nutrition information at the Ethnic Gourmet website. If their stuff is so good, why is the information not conveniently available?)
Amy's Breakfast Burrito

Between the two of them you can get 2/3 of your sodium in about 1/3 of your Calories (assuming 2000 per day)

The Ethnic Gourmet item can be purchased online for $4.79.

Using the Ethnic Gourmet product as an example, at an average caloric content of 365 Calories, for 2000 Calories per day, you can spend $26.08 daily on food.

Per person.

Well, more like per idiot person.

No wonder this RD pushes this garbage. At a cost of 1.3 cents per Calorie, it is 435% the cost of an average Calorie. This is a tremendous mark-up spelling huge profit potential.

"Don't take advice from the clerk
Employees are not required to complete any formal education or training in nutrition science. That means you may know as much as they do about what to eat and why. Even worse, because they aren't health professionals, they could give you advice that harms rather than helps."

Don't take advice from Prevention, Rodale or this unidentified RD.

It is the media and "health professionals" that are giving "you advice that harms rather than helps."

Avoid their trash.