Goddamn guys i apologize for the length lol. This post is directed towards those in school or doing something with biology and might be able to give me some advice. Right now i'm 19 and in my fourth semester of school at SUNY Farmingdale. I'm just taking the Gen Ed stuff. For a while I wasn't sure what I wanted to do but figured being in school would be better than just working. This past year I've been really into eating healthy and cooking and all that. Whenever i'm online i'm looking at nutritional information. It's something that really intrests me. So me and 2 of my friends were planning on transferign up to SUNY Plattsburg next year. I was looking through the undergraduate book and saw they have a Nutrition Major. That really clicked for me. It combined my intrest in nutrition with my love of food into something I figured would pay the bills. I figured any kinda science has money in it. But even besides the money, I sort of want to be on the frontlines of new nutrition research and ideas. I wanna help people too. Now the main reason i'm posting this on GC is that I think that right now everyone's got it wrong. You know how youre told to eat like 6-8 servings of whole grains a day? I call bullshit, there's nothing in bread you can't get from veggies. NOBODY needs grains. Grains were cultivated to supply our populations with cheap, plentiful energy. And thats good for the species, but not the individual. We're not made to eat grains. Grains are trying to poison us. And really I belive your body sees a teaspoon of flour the same as a teaspoon of sugar. Grains and sugar is what's making everyone fat! Fat doesn't make you fat. All that fat free stuff on the shelves is garbage. You could eat 80%Lean groundbeef all day everyday and loose weight. You'd get sick of it, but the point is there's a growing number of people that say Saturated fat is actually good for you, and only when you eat that vanilla creme cake does it clog your arteries. I bet my pinky toe on it. Eating 0 carbs won't feel spectacular, but thats where veggies come in. At most you only need around 100gs of carbs (and thats ALOT of veggies). Any more than that and your getting fat. If people replaced all their sugar/grain carbs with carbs from veggies, and satisfyed their hunger by eating fatty meats (scrambled eggs cooked in butter, bacon, hamburger meat, veggie/meat stirfrys) nobody would be fat. Cavemen didn't want to hunt the lean rabbits, they went for the fatty, delicous mammoth meat. There's a reason fat is delicious. Now as you can see thats pretty radical stuff. The media is all over saturated fats right now. But THINK ABOUT IT STONERS! USE YOUR OPEN-MINDEDNESS FOR A SECOND! What if everyone's got this shit wrong? What if the only reason saturated fats are bad is because of sugar. Saturated fats could be the PREFERD fuel of the body. But I could be wrong too! Thats why i want to know the science behind nutrition. I want to understand HOW a vitamin or a carb or this or that effects the body. I want an UNBIASED understanding our metabolism and how everything works. I want to be able to back up this way of eating with science. But then I saw this: Major in Nutrition? That shit kept me up til 4am last night. Basicly it says that not only is there no money or jobs for someone with a degree in Nutrition, but that the whole time CW (conventional wisdom) is shoved down your throat. And when you do get that degree, if you want to give nutrtional advice to people you're under the eye of the USDA and can potentially loose your job preaching anything other than CW.... WTF? I thought college was where people study and develope NEW ideas and challenge the old ones. This crap is no different than highschool. I think in this world people should ALWAYS be questioning things.... Look even if I am wrong, I want to be able to know exactly WHY i'm wrong, you know? So, with the above in mind, what do you guys think I should do? There are other BIO majors at Plattsburg that might be more what i'm looking for: -Biology Major -Biochemestry Major (sounds like what I might be looking for, but not sure) -Cytotechnology (not exactly sure what this is) -Medical Technology I was thinking maybe i can pick my major from one of those while Minoring in Nutrition.... But what do you guys think? Should I move on and let the rest of the world handle this one? I'm really not intrested in much else Science wise. Somone in that other topic reccomended going into another field like being an Ultrasound Technition or something, but I find it's easier to stay motivated and do well in school when your passionate about what your studying...
That was your first mistake. But for real, out of those I'd pick biology, it's diverse and surely there's money in biology.
In most fields, a bachelors degree is about learning the basics. You won't start doing your own, independent research until you have a masters or phd.
I am and have taken some nutrition courses and from what my professors have told me, it is a very hard major to get work in. You basically end up teaching it, working for a sports team/gym/health club like jenny craig, or working in a lab if you have any chemistry background. But one of my professors was the nutritionist for the Oakland Raiders and has a phd so she is ballin out the timbs, just depends on how much you really like nutrition lol.
yeah i just learned this after posting this topic. I'm thinkin get my Bacholers in Biochem at plattsburg, then from there look into further education maybe elsewhere where i can focus more on nutrition. but thnks for the replies guys
I could've told you that a large portion of the nutrition field is bullshit. Why do you think there are so many diet fads and crazes? Cause it's bullshit. People cite studies saying that vitamins are harmful, that we should only eat food that we hunt/grow (Meats, fruits, veggies, no grains), blah blah blah. Fuck nutrition. I'm going to eat what I want, when I want. (Oh no! 6 meals a day is best for your metabolism! FUCK OFF) IMO you should look at a more stable field.
I was relaxing with some friends, and we were discussing possible career fields and one thing I might suggest is taking the right types of classes to work/run/own a medical weed analysis lab, checking for chemical levels and possible contamination. I think that might be an excellent possibility for a growth industry when MMJ gets decriminalized/legalized in the whole country. What do you think? Sound interesting? And you can always minor in nutrition.
bringing up an old post because jimboob knows the truth, I've eaten grain free for about 6 months strictly, and been grain free with exceptions every few weeks for the majority of the last 3 years. Don't even eat veggies though because after a few weeks your body relearns to consistently use fat for energy. I just supplement low sugar fruits (tomatoes, peppers...) into my diet to make up for not eating raw organs.
Make sure you are eating enough carbs or you will most likely run into metabolic issues in the near future. VLC is recipe for disaster, although it works in the short term for weight loss. I'd plug a regular day of eating for you into cronometer.com and see what you're deficient in. If you are not eating veggies or organ meat, and only eating fruit sparingly you are probably not meeting your daily nutritional needs.