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Some of my hardest days as a nutritionist, there is a few different types of days that
I find to be a struggle. One is a day when I work with too many clients and I'm actually
getting confused as to what just went on in my last conversation versus what just went
on in this one. For instance somebody who tells me that they hate tomatoes earlier and
then later with another client, I'm working to build a meal plan and I say, oh that's
right you hate tomatoes, no tomatoes, I say oh no that was my last client. So that's one
struggle, is really keeping my individuals separate. You know other things like sugar
issues or whether they have you know, cravings at night or whatever, you really have to know
about the whole person and so working with more then two or three people in a day can
be a bit confusing. Another struggle that I consider an ongoing struggle as a nutritionist
which I actually don't mind, but I will acknowledge that it's a struggle is deciphering between
two different opinions and two different pieces of research that conflict each other. So we
hear all of the time, you know for instance, on the news we heard several years ago that
vitamin E, excuse me vitamin E was dangerous and it actually could cause some of the problems
that we thought it was protecting against. Such as heart disease, such as cancer. Well
as a nutritionist, here I am, I'm the expert yet I've got someone on the news telling my
client that vitamin E is bad for them. So I actually have to figure out, now why is
this being said. What's actually happening here. What piece of research did the media
grab on to and how are they turning it into this piece of news. So now let me give you
the answer that I found after some more research to this topic. The answer is that there are
different forms of vitamin E. There's alpha, there's delta and there's gamma. These are
the three major kinds that come in supplement form. And it's alpha that's the dangerous
one and also the cheap one, where as delta and gamma are very beneficial and they do
act as an anti oxidants.