Imagine a future where your doctor prescribes nutrient-dense whole foods instead of another pill. That vision just got a major boost with a groundbreaking Consensus Statement in JAMA, outlining essential nutrition competencies to integrate into medical school training. The competencies would be included in licensing and board certification exams, equipping doctors to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease using food as medicine. This is a cause close to my heart and central to the work I’m championing with the Food Fix Campaign. We’re pushing for updates to the NIH Nutrition Curriculum Guide, launching a Medical School Curriculum Initiative, and advocating for tying federal grants to nutrition training. By making nutrition a cornerstone of medical education, we can equip doctors with the tools they need to combat the chronic disease epidemic. Full statement: https://lnkd.in/gqd9vriC
or maybe imagine a future when MDs like this one didn't say to eat "whole foods" while selling pages of supplements ... #hypocrisy
Great, but what’s the timeline for replacing UPF’s (slow acting poison) in grocery stores? What’s the timeline for converting commercial farming? When 70% or more of available "food" is harmful, one can’t but be suspicious of this "food only" narrative. Particularly because there seems to always be a high cost solution for CGM that’s paired up with the clean food only path. To be blunt, we’re out of time. The USA can’t continue to incinerate $ on solutions that require everyone to have incredible self control, a six figure income, or a timeline of 50 years for adaptation. The slow and steady operators are going to become the new rent seekers.
Imagine um futuro onde médicos prescrevem alimentos ricos em nutrientes em vez de pílulas. Com uma Declaração de Consenso no JAMA, essa visão está mais próxima. A proposta é incluir competências nutricionais no currículo médico, capacitando médicos a prevenir e tratar doenças crônicas usando alimentos como remédios. Iniciativas como a Food Fix Campaign estão liderando essa mudança, pressionando por atualizações nos currículos e vinculando subsídios ao treinamento em nutrição. Tornar a nutrição central na educação médica pode transformar a saúde e combater a epidemia de doenças crônicas.🌹🌹
Totally support the Food Fix Initiative. And as for prescribing Fruit & Veg, this is being piloted in a part of London (UK) with high deprivation. Seems promising so far. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/22/fresh-fruit-and-veg-given-to-low-income-families-in-uk-trial
In my experience many do suggest this but they can't feed their patients. There is a large element of accountability everyone has to have for themselves. That said, I do believe the food system is broken and needs overhaul. It doesn't help when people are actively dooped. Continuing to push for transperancy and more education about products and data from studies will help consumers make more informed decisions for themselves.
Imagine a future where people took personal responsibility for their own health. Information, technology, resources and support are 100 fold from where they were 50 years ago. Yet, health outcomes for the average American continues to decline. Nothing will ever change until the personal desire to maintain health span changes. You’ve gotta want it.
I love this! My only concern and question is what do we do when people cannot afford the fresh fruits and vegetables that are required and/or find they are not willing to eat them since they are addicted to the chemicals, salt, and sugar overload in our food supply? Although I love this idea and absolutely agree this is the right way forward, getting people to actually follow this food prescription to where they would actually see results will likely be a huge challenge.
As an Acupuncturist I follow the principles of Chinese Medicine. Foods should be the first medicine, a healthy microbiome is the key to better health outcomes. Sometimes we make our health so complicated because we expect doctors to have the answers and the magic pill to fix all problems. Look at your practitioner, are they healthy? Broaden your options, learn new skills to improve your own health, involve other professionals that can guide, encourage and motivate change. We need to go back to basics and educate the public as a whole. I love the idea of educating academics but why not apply it to everyone.
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5dIt boggles my mind that this wasn’t ALREADY part of medical school curriculums. My husband is a pediatric gastroenterologist. I met him right after medical school. When he was considering gastroenterology at one point, he said to me “I’m starting to realize that nutrition has a lot to do with gut health”… I told him I would mock him for the rest of his life for saying that 😆 But at the same time, it’s not his fault! How is it that someone went through med school is considering being a gastroenterologist and didn’t realize the impact of nutrition on our gut health let alone health in general?!?!