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[Mindy D]

“Despite the connection between poor diet and many preventable diseases, only about one-fifth of American medical schools require students to take a nutrion, according to David Eisenberg, adjunct associate professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He discussed the topic May 8, 2017 on PBS NewsHour in a segment that featured the Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives that he founded. Co-sponsored by Harvard Chan School and the  Culinary Institute of America program provides doctors and other health professionals with a crash course in how to build food and nutrition into their medical practices to improve health.

“Today, most medical schools in the United States teach less than 25 hours of nutrition over four years. The fact that less than 20 percent of medical schools have a single required course in nutrition, it’s a scandal. It’s outrageous. It’s obscene,” Eisenberg told NewsHour.

Taken from Harvard, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

[Snowpuppy]

That's when they refer you to a nutritionist.

[Mindy D]

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@Snowpuppy wrote:

That's when they refer you to a nutritionist.

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They pretend they are experts, even when they are not.

[hckynut]

@Mindy D 

With 2 medical doctors in my immediate family, and several as close friends, I have known for some time they are far from experts when it comes to nutrition.

hckynut

[haddon9]

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@Snowpuppy wrote:

That's when they refer you to a nutritionist.

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HA!  When my husband had a hospital stay for over a week they kept giving him lots of sugar in the form of dressing packets & dessert even when he asked to be put on a low sugar diet.

[suzyQ3]

While I think that physicians should have a good handle on general nutrition and also nutritional knowledge as it relates to the needs of people suffering from specific diseases, I don't think that a physician needs to promote dietary advice beyond the rational and common sense details. In fact, I'd run for the hills if my doctor were to go keto on me, for example. :-)

[blackhole99]

Nutrition is a boring course of study, we wouldn't have any docs if they really had to spend much time learning about it.LOL My niece hated the nutrition course she had to take as part of her nursing degree.

[SeaMaiden]

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@blackhole99 wrote:

Nutrition is a boring course of study, we wouldn't have any docs if they really had to spend much time learning about it.LOL My niece hated the nutrition course she had to take as part of her nursing degree.

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When I go to the doctor, all of them are clueless in nutrition and knowledge of ..supplements....even worse than nutrition . They only know  how cut you up, give you pharmaceuticals ....or treatments that eventually make you worse or kill you.  That is why I prefer going to a Naturopathic MD.  At least they are open to using natural medicine too.

[sidsmom]

@Mindy D 

Thanks for posting.

Yeah, that’s why it shocks me when people are so loyal 

to their doctor, who knows almost nothing about nutrition other

than what he/she reads/sees in the current news. Stuns me. 

[SeaMaiden]

https://nutritionfacts.org/2017/06/08/how-much-nutrition-education-do-doctors-get/