State Threatens to Shut Down Nutrition Blogger

callmeBAM

The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle.

Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without a license. According to the law, “practicing” nutrition includes “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” and “providing nutrition counseling.”

Read more here: http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8992

Eaglesfanintn

This makes no sense. Why not just make him put a big disclaimer on his site? "I am not a nutritionist, just someone who changed the way they eat and this has worked for me. Do with it as you will."
Geez, if they shut down every blog/website/newspaper/tv show that gave out bad advice, there wouldn't be much left.

mes1119

Gotta love NC... someone must have gotten their panties in a wad over nothing.

It is a BLOG. come on people...

That would mean every person on here that ever gives advice to others is at risk for being kicked off the site. NICE.

BrianSharpe

Without reading the blog it's impossible for me to take sides, he may or may not be providing what amounts to nutritional counseling.

If you think about it there are a lot of regulated occupations/professions in practically every jurisdiction in the industrialized world. While lay people often see regulation as a way of maintaining a quasi-monopoly the reality is that regulation serves to protect consumers.

I'm not a lawyer, I don't give legal advice; I'm not an electrician, I won't re-wire your house but you don't have to look to far to find websites that contain legal advice and/or medical advice etc where there is no accountability on the part of the person providing the information (they'll hide behind freedom of speech) yet people will, sometimes to their detriment, rely on the information provided.

Geez, if they shut down every blog/website/newspaper/tv show that gave out bad advice, there wouldn't be much left.

and this would be a bad thing?? :laugh: :laugh: