Medical students learn almost nothing about nutrition and lifestyle

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The majority of the patients who modern doctors meet suffer from lifestyle-related diseases, yet students in med school are hardly taught anything about diet and lifestyle interventions. So it’s about time the curriculum catches up with reality, say medical students. They say what they are taught is not practical or relevant to most of the medical problems they see in GP surgeries, clinics and hospitals. A leading GP estimated that up to 80% of his patients had conditions linked to lifestyle and diet. These included obesity, type 2 diabetes and depression. BBC News: We learn nothing about nutrition, claim medical students Low-carb doctors "Humans are not broken by default"15:22What is it like practicing as a low-carb doctor in Germany? Is the medical community there aware of the power of dietary interventions? "After a day or two the hunger goes away"33:21How should you handle patients who want to lose weight on low carb, as a medical doctor? A ketogenic diet...
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