Friday Favorites: How Much Do Doctors Actually Know About Nutrition?
See if you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors.
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This is why Dr. Greger is so necessary for reliable and accurate information.
A parallel issue is the dearth of healthy foods in supermarkets and restaurants. This is especially true when we’re out and about and need a healthy snack. I always try and carry something healthy with me when I think I might need a snack.
Processed food manufacturers need to hear from consumers that less ADDED chemicals, sugar, oil and salt is wanted in their food products.
Why is there so much ADDED sugar in everything, even bread. That’s just crazy
Email, text, tweet or phone your favorite producer of poison and let them know consumers want less salt, oils and sugars in their products.
Let their customer service department know that all the extra added salt, oil and sugar is not necessary or desired and is causing health issues.
Reduce or eliminate highly processed food from your diet if you can.
Go vegan for your health, whole food plant based.
Go vegan for the animals. Go vegan for the planet. Go vegan and be healthier and happier.
A lower risk of heart disease and cancer for you and a better planet for everyone, human and animals.
Eating healthy is not a diet it is a healthy life style.
Go out and look around. The vast majority of people you see are obese or al least over weight.
People do not need to be fat shamed BUT being over weight is not healthy and leads to a host of illnesses.
When you look around you can see all the unhealthy people without taking a blood test or a fitness test
“NORMAL” for the average American is “UNHEALTHY” The health of society is in decline.
At a urology appointment, my doctor cracked a joke about me being a vegan, saying “that’s why you’re full of shyt on the CT scan”. Then, she told me that she’s a carnivore, and then proceeded to describe omnivorous meals. I lost confidence in that urologist fairly quickly.
That is why it is important so self educate ourselves about food, not just because what our doctors have said.
I heard a hospital dietitian ask a vegan where they got their protein.
Well said. Thank you.
As much as they know about jabs-nada!
5:12 Thank you❤
Good point about the crappy food served at events, I went once to a diabetes prevention workshop given by my insurance provider and they served soft drinks and high carb snacks, not to mention what is served in hospitals. I told my GP I was now plant based and he recommended I eat a steak once in a while.
Great video!
I’m a Urologist . The Endocrinologists do not know that intramyocellular fat causes insulin resistance nor do many of the Internists that I know. Some of the Cardiologists know about Dean Ornish’s work. The Vascular Surgeons are the most closed minded to plant based nutrition. I know one along with a Cardiologist that think a modified keto diet is the way to go. Luckily I set the record straight and send my patients home with a flyer on low fat whole food plant based nutrition.
We’ve collectively forgotten that it was common for doctors from the mid 20th century to smoke. Maybe we should all do our own research rather than deferring to individual doctor’s opinions.
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Thanks doc. Hippocrates was a genius. Let food be thy medicine! ❤😊 Salute from Holland.
It is just crazy that Doctors do not get nutrition training in Medical schools.
Every doctor visit should include some nutrition discussion. The majority of the population is over weight or obese leading to high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. Schools and hospital cafeterias should be leading the way to good health by setting the example of what is a healthy meal and teaching people what to eat and why.. Every person in the hospital for heart disease should have a nutrition class before being checked out from the hospital with follow up education and training in nutrition. Medicare and Medicaid should require patient nutrition education as part of their standard of care. Nutrition information should be run on the hospital TV channel. Prevention needs to be emphasized to every patient. After the fact pills and surgery don’t deal with the ROOT CAUSE.
Hospitals, doctors offices and schools should be places where good nutrition is taught and provided not places that contribute to disease and obesity. It is crazy the hospitals are feeding people the very food that caused the heart disease, high blood pressure or cancer that they are treating. Every person in the hospital should receive some nutrition education before being released. Every doctor visit should be an opportunity to educate patients about how food choices impacts their health outcomes. The fact that doctors do not get nutrition training as part of their training makes no sense. Medicare and Medicaid should require nutrition education as part of patient care. Focus should be on food choices. Fasting should be investigated as a treatment for disease.
Thank you!
Sounds like you are talking about Dr Oz…
They actually know little to nothing about nutrition 🎉
Absolutely!!!!!! You said it all, and I couldn’t agree more! I’m a trained nutritionist…and I’ve studied nutrition LONG before and after earning my master’s degree in the subject. Roughly 60 years now, and counting 🙂
Let food be your medicine.