The American Medical Association passed a recommendation for hospitals to provide plant-based diets.
“Globally, 11 million deaths a year are attributed to food, putting unhealthy food before any other cause of death in the world.” Given that food is our number one killer, you would think that nutrition education would be emphasized during treatment and training, but there is a lack. A systematic review found that, apart from a healthy diet for a healthy lifestyle, graduating medical students are not supported by their education to provide high-quality, effective patient care…”
It can start with undergrad. What is most important? Studying a lead killer of mankind or a chemical chemist?
In the medical school, students may spend only 19 hours of healthy food only for many hours, and they don’t even learn the most useful teaching. How many cases of scurvy and beriberi, diseases of malnutrition, will meet clinical practice? Conversely, how many of their future patients will be suffering from the excesses of food – obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease? Those are probably more common than scurvy or beriberi. “However, 95% are perfect Cardiologists [surveyed] Believe that their role includes personally providing patients with basic information on healthy nutrition, “but even one in ten feels that they have a hold” expert “on this subject.
If you look at the health guidelines of what we should do for our patients in relation to our number one killer, atherosberotic heart disease, all treatment starts with a healthy lifestyle, as shown at 1:50 in my video Hospitals with 100 percent supported menus.
“However, how can doctors set these guidelines without adequate training in detection?”
Less than half of medical schools report teaching any clinical nutrition. In fact, they may effectively teach the anti-the anti-, in that “students often enter medical school with a greater appreciation for the role of healthy eating than they leave.” Below and at 2:36 is mine video Is the chart titled “Percentage of Medical Students who indicate that nutrition is important to their careers.” When entering various medical schools, about three-quarters on average felt that nutrition was important to their careers. The Smart Bunch. Then after two years of instruction, they were asked the same question, and the numbers attacked. In fact, in most schools, it fell to 0%. Instead of being taught, they get De-efued. They were of the opinion that nutrition is important to wash the rights from their brains. “Therefore, the theory of speculation” – the first two years of medical school- “reduces the loss of the sense of relevance and importance of the applied discipline of nutrition.”
Following Medical School, during residency, nutrition education is “little or, in general, non-existent.” A “major renewal” was issued in 2018 to have accommodation and disease training requirements, and there were zero feeding requirements. “So you can get internal medicine degrees that come out of a terrible program and they haven’t learned anything – nothing – about healthy eating.”
“Why is food not always addressed in medical education and practice, and what should be done about that?” One of the reasons for the medical silence on nutrition “is that,” Sadly … Healthy eating takes a back seat … because there are few financial incentives to support it. ” What can we do about that? The Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School has identified a number of different policies in these areas of medical education and recommended types of policy, as you can see here and at 3:48 of mine video.
For example, the government could make veterans affairs (VA) doctors get at least some nutrition education, or we could put questions about nutrition on Board exams so schools would be pressured to teach it. As we are now, even patients who have just had a heart attack do not change their diet. Doctors may not have the courage to do it, and hospitals may jeopardize their future by feeding their employees.
The good news is that the American Medical Association (AMA) has passed on hospitals that encourage providing healthy food options. What is the idea! “Our AMA is about this [U.S.] Health care facilities to improve the health of patients, employees, and visitors by: (a) providing a variety of healthy foods, including food based on learning, and foods that are full and low in saturated fat, sodium, and added sugar; (b) eliminating the use of meat from menus; and (c) providing and promoting healthy beverages. “Good!
“Similarly, in the year 2018, the state of California authorized the availability of food based on the fund for patients in hospitals with a different menu, and it all provides learning materials used to improve education, especially plant food, in chronic illness.”
Let’s check out some of their menu offerings: How about lentil bolognese? Or make cauliflower hash browns for breakfast, mushroom ragu for lunch, and, for dinner, white beans, salad and fruit for dessert. (This is the first time a hospital menu has ever made me hungry!)
The key to these changes was “physician advocacy and increased education of staff and patients in eating a plant-based diet.” One clinic can spark change in the entire system, because science is on its side. “Physicians have a unique position in society” in the power of Flwence policy at all levels; It’s because of the time we spent.
To find out more about nutritional ignorance that is the basis of clinical medicine, see the related post below.
