Op-Ed - The missing ingredient in medical training: evidence-based nutrition
> Every day, patients walk into clinics with diseases that, unbeknownst to them, stem from what’s on their dinner table. Yet most doctors are ill-equipped to counsel them, not for lack of care or effort, but for lack of training....
> Today, most medical students receive fewer than 20 hours of nutrition training over four years of school
> Recommendations to “eat less fat” or “choose whole grains” overlook metabolic realities and fail to address the underlying dysfunction driving most chronic disease.
> Ketogenic and other carbohydrate-restricted diets, in particular, have been extensively studied and shown to stabilize blood sugar, improve insulin sensitivity, and, in many cases, induce remission or major improvement in chronic metabolic diseases. Yet these dietary approaches are not taught to our future physicians.
> Future physicians must understand the latest science surrounding diet and metabolic health.
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> Today, most medical students receive fewer than 20 hours of nutrition training over four years of school
> Recommendations to “eat less fat” or “choose whole grains” overlook metabolic realities and fail to address the underlying dysfunction driving most chronic disease.
> Ketogenic and other carbohydrate-restricted diets, in particular, have been extensively studied and shown to stabilize blood sugar, improve insulin sensitivity, and, in many cases, induce remission or major improvement in chronic metabolic diseases. Yet these dietary approaches are not taught to our future physicians.
> Future physicians must understand the latest science surrounding diet and metabolic health.
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