So, on the back of yesterday's posts about LCF, I have had one of our own TCHQ crew contact me and educate me a bit further.
Here's me saying he must have had his head screwed on during LCF days - hes drawing up exercise regimes, sorting macros, creating meal plans and putting it all in a pretty bow and labelling it a plan when infact he wasn't/isnt qualified to do so.
Yep, slap my wrist, I should have known better than to use his name in a positive context
It turns out that only Dieticians can develop meal plans. Not PTs, not Nutritionalists. Dieticians.
I mean, he's neither a PT nor Nutritionalist either, but Dietician he definately aint.
I checked with the person that sent me the stuff and they confirmed all plans were created by Dan. He had nobody on board at that time and even if he did, a Nutritionalist wasn't qualified to do it anyway.
This is what I was sent:
In most circumstances, anyone other than a Registered Dietitian (RD) or a licensed physician, is not legally allowed to prescribe meal plans. This means that you should not provide a detailed meal plan to your client and indicate that they must follow that meal plan. In many cases, giving a client a meal plan can be deemed “prescribing” a meal plan.
Clients will often have questions about supplementation, including vitamins and minerals. For example, clients may ask how much vitamin D they should be supplementing with daily. As a nutritionist/nutrition coach, it is outside our scope of practice to prescribe a specific supplement or a particular dosage to our clients. In this scenario, it would be outside our scope of practice to tell a client to take 5000 IU of vitamin D per day during the winter.
Now I should be shocked, but as its Wheeler, I'm not. Is anything that bloke does above board?
Hes lit-er-ally telling them what to eat and what supplements to take
If you are interested, here's a very useful link:
As a nutrition coach, it's essential to understand your scope of practice. Here are important “dos” and “don’ts” to remember as you engage with clients.
blog.nasm.org
Happy Friday People.
Thank you to a fellow Tattler for the info... I just love how everyone comes together to help each other out here