False myths and trends

Dear Reader,
Never before has food been part of people’s “culture” as in recent years: the quality and safety of food, but also the style and various alimentary regimes have become a product of modern times. If this, on the one hand, is a positive fact since it shows how we have now become aware of this important aspect of our lives, on the other, there is also the risk of straying into attitudes that satisfy trends that are more or less similar.
The flourishing of food trends, often in disagreement between them, are proof of this. They only confuse and bewilder the public, who are already provoked enough by advertising: meat or no meat, associate foods or separate them, zone or no zone, rotation-elimination, intolerance to everything, metabolism or blood groups, etc… etc….
Ignorance, misinformation and the widespread need for greater psycho-physical well-being, are a fertile terrain. Sometimes solutions and remedies are proposed that, in my opinion, are founded more on a religious belief than reasonable scientific knowledge.
Who should we believe?
I personally am for maintaining a balanced attitude that associates Nutrition to a moderate Clinical Ecology, a discipline that deals with the needs and lives of different people in relation to environmental changes and daily rhythms.
I instinctively do not trust the “latest generation specialists”: obtaining a discreet scientific mentality means years and years of sacrifice and university and post-graduate study, still in the knowledge that updating oneself never finishes.
This does not mean that one becomes an inhumane machine. On the contrary. Professional experience and the right scientific culture provide a solid and credible support to flexibility and human warmth, elements which are necessary for establishing a trusting relationship.
I do not agree with those methods that transfer “fears” (…of the pains, diseases and inadequacies of life).
Life itself is a marvellous yet simultaneously conflictual fact: we all have, within ourselves, the ability and strength to face life, but we have to know how to preserve, guide and govern this ability.
The nutritionist’s work does not stop at defining personalised diets on the computer (a useful tool that I sometimes do without, processing regimes myself in certain cases). As a nutritionist, I will guide you along this path.

Maria Cristina Ferri
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