And it really depends on who you see - and what model they use.
WHen I had gestational diabetes with my second pregnancy, I was required to see a nutritionalist to stay with the nurse midwifery group I was with AND had ot have near perfect blood sugar readings to stay with them.
The nutritionalist was actually quite good. She told me to eat low carb - not to worry about fats, just to learn what my trigger foods were with blood sugars - testing 7 times a day to figure it out. It helped a LOT and it was my first brush with low carbing that wasn't seen as a "fad diet". This was early 2005.
When my health went kaput in 2010, my doctor again told me to eat low carb. Yet, in 2012 for a weight loss contest I joined they had a nutrition expert work on our eating plan and she said I was eating too much fat. I disagreed. She was "old school" with the whole fat thing.
Calories can come from three places - carbs, proteins and fats. if you lower one, you, by default, have to raise the other one or two. And NOTHING recent is showing fat is bad for you.
So... it depends.
For some people who just don't read or research, they'll find it helpful, but those of us who do? It can even be super frustrating to go.
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