Registered dietitian spreading false information. What should I do?

I started a weight loss group recommended by my kinesiologist (that profession is recognized where I live). The weight loss group is taught by one registered dietitian, one physical therapist and one psychotherapist to address many angles of weight loss.

My problem is the dietitian keeps teaching false information to the class and I don’t know what I should do. Here is what she is telling the class:

• You should eat the least amounts of fats possible. It doesn’t matter if it’s saturated, polyinsaturated or monoinsaturated. When asked why limit even good fats, she said they were too dense in calories and were bad for the heart.
• You should eat at least one serving of dairy products at each meal. I told her I was lactose intolerant, so she said to find lactose-free alternative. I asked why dairy products were so important and she said it’s for calcium. No other foods have calcium? /s
• She said we should have veggies on 1/2 of our plate, a source of fibre on 1/4 and a protein on the other 1/4 which is not really bad advice. But she said if you make a recipe and mix all those together, you should add a huge bowl of salad/veggies on the side as the veggies in the recipe don’t count (even if you measured them and it counts for 1/2 of your plate).
• She said that anyone who eats 1400 calories or less per day cannot lose weight and will enter starvation mode. She described starvation mode as your body holding on to fat for dear life and panicking.
• We have to fill a food journal (I use myfitnesspal) and she is writing comments on it. I am 5’2 so I eat between 1200-1400 calories each day. She just keeps writing on my journal that I am eating too little, won’t lose weight and will go in starvation mode...
• A lot of people are going to this group because they are pre-diabetic/diabetic and she says it’s not important to count carbs/sugar for them.

She will be so surprised when I show her that I have been losing 1 lb a week steadily for 2 months.

I am a bit concerned she is spreading this information to a lot of people and I don’t know how to address it. She is probably in her 20s so she should have more recent info logically?

Should I just drop it? Talk to her in private? I have a feeling she won’t listen to me anyway because in her eyes, she is the one with the degree and expertise.

Any thoughts?

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