What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition
Obesity is the root cause of several diseases, yet medical schools don’t train doctors on nutrition and weight loss
Doctors are especially skilled at a few things. Prescribing medications? Absolutely. Performing surgery? For sure. Nutrition and weight loss? No, definitely not.
You might be a little stunned to hear that admission coming from a trained medical specialist like myself. But whether a physician has expertise regarding diet often comes down to their training and what they view as their circle of competence.
Generally speaking, during the four years of medical school, the total amount of time spent on nutrition is about 10 to 20 hours.
Medical training extends more than a decade, and yet there is barely any attention paid to nutrition or the equally thorny question of how a person should approach weight loss. In medical school, a standard curricula may include a mandated number of hours for nutrition, which can vary greatly depending on where a physician is trained. Generally speaking, during the four years of medical school, the total amount of time spent on nutrition is about 10 to 20 hours. I did my medical training at…
