Photo: Miguel Angel Garrido
A reader sent me this picture, taken during a coffee break at the large European nutrition conference in Leipzig.
The picture above just shows a small part of the table. Here’s all of it:
Coffee break
Obviously even nutrition professionals are allowed to have sweets once in a while. But was there really nothing better to serve? Perhaps there are nutrition professionals who prefer something drastic: using their knowledge about healthy food in real life?
To me it feels like handing out cigarettes to participants at a lung cancer conference. Tasteless. It makes the whole arrangement seem clueless – and unfortunately it’s not the first time I see something like it.
What do you think?
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