Monday, September 20, 2010

Teaching Doctors About Nutrition and Diet

Teaching Doctors About Nutrition and Diet

"Within days of being accepted into medical school, I started getting asked for medical advice. Even my closest friends, who should have known better, got in on the action.

"Should I take vitamins?"
"What do you think of this diet?"
"Is yogurt good for me or not?"

Each and every time someone posed such a query, I became immediately cognizant of one thing: the big blank space in my brain. After all, even with medical school acceptance in hand, I was no more a doctor than they were."

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