Most Doctors Know Very Little About Nutrition or Exercise!
Polling shows that fewer than one-eighth of patient visits to physicians include any nutrition counseling and fewer than 25 percent of physicians believe they have sufficient education to talk to patients about their diet or physical activity.
The number of hours devoted to teaching future physicians about nutrition in medical school has actually declined, from 22.3 in 2004 to 19.6 in 2009, and the number of hours devoted to teaching future physicians about exercise and fitness is negligible.
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