Thursday, 20 October 2016

Doctors 'know too little about nutrition and exercise'

Doctors 'know too little about nutrition and exercise'

Letter from medics and dieticians calls for improvement in training to reduce lifestyle-related deaths

Most doctors are ill-equipped to tackle Britain’s increasing frequency of lifestyle-related diseases because they know worryingly little about how nutrition and exercise can improve health, a group of prominent medics has claimed.

“There is a lack of knowledge and understanding of the basic evidence for the impact of nutrition and physical activity on health among the overwhelming majority of doctors. This has its roots in the lack of early formal training,” they state in a letter to the Medical Schools Council (MSC) and General Medical Council (GMC). 
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