Dietitians have taken to Twitter to voice their concerns over the segment “Low Carb Diet Fat or Fiction” aired on the ABC’s Catalyst on Thursday night. The segment, which included comments from cricketer Shane Watson, exercise science Professor Tim Noakes, sports medicine and exercise physician Dr Peter Brukner and Dietitians Association Australia spokesperson Melanie McGrice.

Following is just a sample of some of the tweets posted by dietitians.

Just threw together 26 things wrong with @ABCcatalyst low carb story (more to come) by @MaryanneDemasi #catalyst http://t.co/1zCAYr6emK

— David Driscoll (@davidmdriscoll) November 14, 2014

Pete Evans: “coconut oil is full of monounsaturated fat”. Actually its about 6% monounsaturated fat, but 86% saturated fat. #catalyst #abc

— Sarah Norris (@sarahnorris83) November 13, 2014

Should You Go Low Carb? In light of last night’s #ABCCatalyst program on the topic I thought I’d share this Get… http://t.co/hYqFkm4Ngm

— Dr Joanna McMillan (@joannanutrition) November 14, 2014

And while I’m at it, how is a radiologist an expert on diet – AccSD’s & APD’s don’t interpret x-rays. #professionalrespect #ABCcatalyst

— Alison Garth (@ali_garth) November 13, 2014

15odd nutrition patients booked tomorrow who are all going to quiz me about #abccatalyst My view: bias show of pseudo science don’t watch!

— Gabrielle Maston APD (@Gmaston) November 13, 2014

It will be interesting to see if this episode about the high fat low carb diet is deemed to breach the impartiality guidelines in a similar fashion to the heart disease (statin) episode which aired in October 2013.

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