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11-Oct-10 08:35

Too few doctors know anything about real nutrition because they chose to be medical doctors, not nutritionists. At the very least, however, if doctors were believers in the fact that nutrition plays a huge role in health, they would stay in touch with the community of folks (like WAPF, for instance) who ARE foodies and can teach proper eating and food preparation. But there's not payola in that, so the doc's prefer to stick close to the drug companies. Besides, it's easier to write out a script than taking three seconds to explain the concept to their patients. They have no problem referring people to a specialist for a "medical reason" but I guess doctors don't consider true health through nutrition a medical fact.

Here's one doc who's not afraid to mention the foibles of the current system:
QUOTE: "But as Dr. Pauline Chen explains this week in her Doctor and Patient column, many of the nation’s medical schools are failing to provide new doctors with adequate nutrition education."

Read here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/what-doctors-dont-know-about-nutrition/?apage=6

To be very honest, however, I think I'd still rather get my nutrition information from someone who is NOT allopathically educated. Those dudes can't ever seem to get it right, so I'll stick with folks who know.

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