10/3/25 - Vacation Issue: Don't Be a JAQ-a**; Questions of the Day; Hormonal Health & Balancing-Woo Phrases of 2025? What NOT to Say to Someone Who Has Cancer
Nutrition News YOU Can Use
👎🏽Don’t be a JAQ (Just Asking Questions) ass🫏!
From Thinking is Power: “Just asking questions” (JAQ-ing) allows a questioner to make assertions while avoiding the burden of proof. There’s nothing wrong with asking questions…but you have to be willing to accept the answer.”
⚠️Hey everyone. It’s a vacation week so you’re getting a slightly revised old(er) issue of the newsletter that has some content that appeared in other newsletters. We’ll be back to regularly scheduled content next week along with a special FNCE content you won’t want to miss.
🙋🏽♀️Question of the Day
Build Up Dietitians NUTRITION SUPPORT Group
Brianna U. “If we’re being honest, it’s the push back from providers that comes from a non-evidenced based belief they pulled from somewhere.”
Susan G. “Inappropriate use of PN, either usage when not indicated or inappropriate orders.”
Brenda M. “It's never having a day when you can just coast, every day takes 100 percent concentration. Perversely, this is also what I like about it.”
Carol J. “Knowing when to start it and when to stop it.”
Kim H. “Dealing with providers and educating about appropriate use.”
Alanna W. “Choosing which organ to care about more, families begging for more to be done when we’ve exhausted all avenues, nurses deciding flushes aren’t really necessary.”
📝Substack: Cancer Culture
by Stacy Wentworth, M.D.
“…Cancer is complex. And complexity is hard. Which means the answers to treating it will not be as simple as Uncle Larry’s homemade celery juice.
So, what do you say when someone offers you their unsolicited advice? a too good to be true solution? Hope with an organic twist? I’ve developed a basic response that balances acknowledgement of the feelings behind the comments while also not forcing you to accept it:
“That’s really interesting. I’ll talk to my doctor about it. Thanks for caring about me.”’
👩🏼💻Article: Woo Phrases of 2025?
Katie Suleta, DHSc, MPH “Make 2025 the Year of Hormonal Health | American Council on Science and Health”
The tried-and-true sales pitch of pseudoscience from scammers:
Drop a jargon-y phrase for a health problem that the vast majority of people do not have but can fear.
Science-wash it with plenty of generic health advice, wellness words, fantastical claims, and flimsy evidence.
Tout products for said health problem that you coincidentally sell.
Besides “hormonal health” and “hormone balancing”, what other words and terms have we seen co-opted by scammers and supplement pushers? How about: adrenal fatigue, leaky gut, inflammation? …what others can you think of?
🤓WORTH A READ
Build Up Dietitians friend, journalist and author Rina Raphael takes a deep dive into MAHA...Dr Kevin Klatt and Build Up Dietitians founder, Leah McGrath, quoted.
“...While analysts contemplate shifting consumer demands, some health experts wonder whether Americans might eventually realize that many MAHA initiatives are unlikely to have a significant impact on public health. Nutrition, for example, depends far more on a person’s overall eating habits than on their artificial dye intake....
Truly changing the U.S. food environment and Americans’ eating habits is a far more complex goal, necessitating ambitious, multifaceted policies that aim to eliminate food deserts, provide access to registered dietitians, and strengthen programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. “There’s lots of noise being made about small things like food additives that are not really getting at the major nutrition problems facing society,” says Kevin Klatt, PhD, a registered dietitian and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley...”
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a66024036/maha-business-boom/
😆A Classic-Comedian Jim Gaffigan