Festival dietitian

Why am I writing this?

• Because I am a dietitian
• Because I’ve just come back from the amazing Port Eliot Festival. There I met the angry chef (https://angry-chef.com/blog). I wish the angry chef was a dietitian, because he’s great at debunking the fad diets. And he is very complimentary about dietitians.
• Because I only told 4 people I met at the Festival that I was a dietitian and was asked my opinion on: The keto diet, the Paleo diet, the someone-put-something-on-my-friends-tongue-to analyse his-diet diet and the Ayurvedic diet. I know this is a very small, non-randomised sample, but is everyone following some sort of fad diet? If so, this is very worrying.
• Because it seems that people have a great interest in food and nutrition but are being ‘fed’ garbage by people selling fad diets. So here is a link to the British Dietetic Association Food Facts about fad diets; https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/faddiets.pdf and here is one about detox diets for good measure; https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/detoxdiets.pdf
• Because I want to share a photo of my festival hat: