A doctor admits Med School didn't teach him to help patients eat better. Med school teaches doctors to diagnose disease and treat it with drugs, surgery, etc.
We are what we eat. Doctors treat the results of our diet.
The article says...
Research has increasingly pointed to a link between the nutritional status of Americans and the chronic diseases that plague them. Between the growing list of diet-related diseases and a burgeoning obesity epidemic, the most important public health measure for any of us to take may well be watching what we eat. See Diet and Disease at National Cancer Institute site.
Added Dr. Chauncey: You can’t just keep writing out script after script after script of new medications when diet is just as important as drugs or any other treatment a patient may be using.
