What’s Wrong in Saying ‘Trust a Dietitian’?

Lucy Aphramor
9 min readJan 5, 2021
White box with influencer crossed out, then registered dietitian centred in capitals, and nutritionist crossed out below.

The chairperson of a dietetic association said my blog post condemning weight conversion, aka dieting, was bringing the profession into disrepute and told me to remove it. Or else.

Lots of dietitians, me included, believe that it is the silence, not the speaking up, that brings the profession into disrepute. And more to the point, we put safety, integrity, and liberation before PR.

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Lucy Aphramor

Lucy Aphramor is a radical dietitian and performance poet. They are Associate Professor of Gender, Power, and The Right to Food at CAWR, Coventry University UK.