Readers Respond: What Is the Worst Advice Youve Received from a Vitamin Store Clerk?
From the article: Are You Letting the Clerk at the Health Food Store Be Your Doctor? It can be risky to take the advice of health food and vitamin store staff and clerks, when it comes to what supplements to take for your thyroid disease and related symptoms. Share your stories about the worst advice you’ve ever received from health and vitamin store staff and clerks. Share Your StoryLook Out for Registered DietitiansI haven’t really had any bad experiences with health food store clerks, but I don’t go to them for advice anyway. I research ahead of time and know what I am going for. The bad advice I got over the years came from RDs (registered dietitians). Overall, I think RDs do a terrible job. I haven’t been councelled by one yet that didn’t give me terrible advice. I have been told by RDs to eat “low fat” a big mistake and worst advice I ever got. Another told me
