Diet-related diseases are the No. 1 cause of death in the US – yet many doctors receive little to no nutrition education in med school
https://theconversation.com/diet-related-diseases-are-the-no-1-cause-of-death-in-the-us-yet-many-doctors-receive-little-to-no-nutrition-education-in-med-school-236217
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We also have an entire industry of *nutritionists* who have minimal training. I knew more than mine after a few weeks of research.
Never mind that saturated fat is a key ingredient in most foods, especially comfort foods. Fortunately the food industry and healthcare industries don’t have incentives to make anything better. 🙄
I thought the #1 cause of death is heart disease? Unless they’re expanding their definition of “diet caused death” to cover that… in which case I guess all car crash mortalities are “diet caused deaths” as well.
As a dentist, we received a decent amount of nutrition training and we took the classes with the medical students.
This is a huge problem in our country obviously. There are lots of fads out there but the one thing you can always count on is a whole food plant-based diet.
Wait until you find out they don’t use obese cadavers because “nobody wants to see that”
I think if they referred out to an RD more often it would help.