Forty hours of dietary training for physicians is a good first step. I support the idea of then integrating dietary into each study of the systems of the body so that physicians can correlate the best foods to support those systems. The pathology of each system could include dietary guidelines to prevent or treat disease. An additional benefit could be that we may find medicines would not be as necessary. A good thing!!
I taught integrative medicine electives in med school and although few signed up the ones that did loved it and found the info enlightening. It incuded nutrition. Can you list the medical schools that have agreed to this? I think it's a wonderful step in the right direction!
I only go to chiropractors for the past five years since I found out what a natural health godsend they are. Their curriculum requires more than that, and they practice nutritional improvements as part of their no drug practice. I’m 75 years old and work full time selling produce. My spine is in great condition. I pay out of my pocket as Medicare lied in their manual this past year about unlimited visits. Now only covers six visits per episode. I would have no problem paying if the Insurance Mafia did not extort $205/mo from my Social Security. I use NO prescription drugs. All natural remedies and foods like beets that cannot be beat! Massage and acupuncture are also self care, natural essentials that I can’t
Health care freedom is my goal: SickCare extortion needs to stop.
Should be integrated as they study each disease entity and how nutrition may prevent it abate that disease- however big pharma will find a way to again push meds over nutrition - farmers can't lobby for medical care the way but pharma will
Love this! We had a nutrition semester class where I went to school. It was the same one the med school used, along with the OT/PT and nursing school. I asked to test out of it, and although my counselor was a bit freaked out by the request, she said, "sure, go ahead and try." I did not study, I just went and took the test. It was laughably easy, and I got a 99th percentile of all the med school/nursing/OT/PT students. That's kind of sad...I hope more nutrition is added and I love the idea of integrating with the health systems in the learning process, as well as a teaching kitchen. There is so much to learn about the value of nutrition and health. It's everything in my view.
That is a picture of Taro with the dirt clinging to it, Hawaii (Big Island) in the background, and the "elephant ear" leaf. Taro and wild pigs are both invasive sources of food, which drove the Polynesian expansion across the Pacific islands.
Plant some taro and leave a few male and female pigs on an island, and it will be "ready" in a couple of decades. Taro root is inedible/toxic, until cooked. Pigs fend for themselves.
Nutrition is complicated in some ways, and simple in other ways.
I grow a couple of large vegetable gardens. Sweet potatoes and yams (not identical) are invasive food species you can try growing if you have a lot of space, good knees and a good back, loose (not clay) soil, and patience. Black eyed peas are African beans that are similarly vigorous and self seeding.
Start vegetable gardening, figuring out what is going wrong, and watching your garden ecosystems.
Nutrition training should be far more than 40 hours. But 40 is more than 20 and 20 is more than zero.
Dietitians are trained in the upside down pyramid and are absolutely NOT nutritionists
Forty hours of dietary training for physicians is a good first step. I support the idea of then integrating dietary into each study of the systems of the body so that physicians can correlate the best foods to support those systems. The pathology of each system could include dietary guidelines to prevent or treat disease. An additional benefit could be that we may find medicines would not be as necessary. A good thing!!
I taught integrative medicine electives in med school and although few signed up the ones that did loved it and found the info enlightening. It incuded nutrition. Can you list the medical schools that have agreed to this? I think it's a wonderful step in the right direction!
https://www.hhs.gov/nutrition-education/index.html
I only go to chiropractors for the past five years since I found out what a natural health godsend they are. Their curriculum requires more than that, and they practice nutritional improvements as part of their no drug practice. I’m 75 years old and work full time selling produce. My spine is in great condition. I pay out of my pocket as Medicare lied in their manual this past year about unlimited visits. Now only covers six visits per episode. I would have no problem paying if the Insurance Mafia did not extort $205/mo from my Social Security. I use NO prescription drugs. All natural remedies and foods like beets that cannot be beat! Massage and acupuncture are also self care, natural essentials that I can’t
Health care freedom is my goal: SickCare extortion needs to stop.
Education is important, in addition, a must is affordabilty and accessibility to healthy choices.
Should be integrated as they study each disease entity and how nutrition may prevent it abate that disease- however big pharma will find a way to again push meds over nutrition - farmers can't lobby for medical care the way but pharma will
After they introduce nutrition to medical schools, perhaps they could introduce a course in toxicology.
Love this! We had a nutrition semester class where I went to school. It was the same one the med school used, along with the OT/PT and nursing school. I asked to test out of it, and although my counselor was a bit freaked out by the request, she said, "sure, go ahead and try." I did not study, I just went and took the test. It was laughably easy, and I got a 99th percentile of all the med school/nursing/OT/PT students. That's kind of sad...I hope more nutrition is added and I love the idea of integrating with the health systems in the learning process, as well as a teaching kitchen. There is so much to learn about the value of nutrition and health. It's everything in my view.
That is a picture of Taro with the dirt clinging to it, Hawaii (Big Island) in the background, and the "elephant ear" leaf. Taro and wild pigs are both invasive sources of food, which drove the Polynesian expansion across the Pacific islands.
Plant some taro and leave a few male and female pigs on an island, and it will be "ready" in a couple of decades. Taro root is inedible/toxic, until cooked. Pigs fend for themselves.
Nutrition is complicated in some ways, and simple in other ways.
I grow a couple of large vegetable gardens. Sweet potatoes and yams (not identical) are invasive food species you can try growing if you have a lot of space, good knees and a good back, loose (not clay) soil, and patience. Black eyed peas are African beans that are similarly vigorous and self seeding.
Start vegetable gardening, figuring out what is going wrong, and watching your garden ecosystems.
You might see this, "Growing Food" https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food