Yves here. While the exhortation to have all doctors receive some nutrition training sounds all well and good, perhaps the advocates should take a look at what passes for nutrition science and get back to me. There is painfully little in the way of good underpinnings due to the dearth of solid studies. It takes very long-duration efforts with frequent and accurate reporting. The ones that are the most solid have nurses as the sample group. Most people lie about what they eat and how much they eat.

A related issue is that what I have seen from my limited contact with those who have degrees in nutrition is enough to make one be leery. Look at the food provided by most hospitals. Those menus are created by dietitians. My mother was fed things that I would have refused to eat, like turkey on white bread, pasta with red sauce,

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