Hello, everybody. We know the last thing you need is another fitness podcast to catch you up on the newest trends,

fad diets and fictitious fat blasting workouts that will be dead in the coming years and decades.

Enter us. My name is Tony. This is Mariana, and we made Fitness Stuff podcast to make exercise

and nutritious science practical. Nutrition science practical. Our goal is to expose misinformation in the industry

by providing only evidence-based education where today we just wrapped up with my good friend

Zach Cohen, the dietitian with a beard. And we dove into a lot of topics that I think honestly

are going to help a lot of people. He runs a massively successful meal prep

business as well. But today we decided to tackle the topic of clean eating and why it might not

be good as you think. Zach is a registered dietitian to clarify big difference from people who

call themselves nutritionist, requirement of over a bachelor's in dietetics,

over 1,200 hours of dietetic internship, and must pass a national exam with 75 hours of continued education. Zach has accumulated 1.3 million avid and engaged followers and his education-based content

teaching people how to lose weight, keep it off, and live an overall stronger, healthier, longer life. Me and Mariana, Mariana and I, we're pumped to show you this one. So, this is my good friend, Zach. Marianna and I are having on the podcast today. Zach is the dietitian with a beard, right? He is an RDN registered dietitian. This is what we were just talking about before the show. I think it was a good place to start. The difference between dietitians and nutritionists. What is to get that RD label behind your names. Let me just kind of list up a couple basics. So to clarify, the difference is if you consider yourself a nutritionist, right, depending on the state in which you practice, you can call yourself a nutritionist without any formal nutrition education, training, licensing, or certification.

Right now, I could call, is it correct that I could label myself as a nutritionist right this second?

Yeah? Just because I decided. Okay. Great. Refer to me as that from now. No. To be considered an

R.D. In the past, I think Mariano was just catching me up. This just changed. In the past,

you need at least a bachelor's, now a master's in dietetics, at least 1,200 hours of dietetic

internship. You have to pass the national exam by the commission on dietetic registration

and continue your education with 75

hours of CEUs after that.

Pretty massive difference.

Did that kind of cover it up a little bit?

Yeah.

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