25/09/2020
When it comes to health and wellness it’s all about the holistic approach starting in the gut with nutrition ....
EMBRACING THE CAUSE: HEALTHCARE OR WELLNESS?
Can we please finally call the current medical model ‘disease care’? We know the healthcare system doesn’t make people healthy, it tries to manage the symptoms.
Why else would there be a separate industry of wellness and nutrition that is growing like wildfire, worth $4.5 trillion last year?
“In the United States, most deaths are preventable and related to nutrition. Given that the number-one cause of death and the number-one cause of disability in this country is diet, surely nutrition is the number-one subject taught in medical school, right? Sadly, that is not the case.
Medical students are still getting less than 20 hours of nutrition education over 4 years, and even most of that has limited clinical relevance. Thirty years ago, only 37 percent of medical schools had a single course in nutrition. According to the most recent national survey, that number has since dropped to 27 percent. And, it gets even worse after students graduate.”
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM
In the UK things are no different.
In 2018 Ally Jaffee, a medical student at Bristol said: "There's just about a society at medical school in everything from sexual health to orthopaedics to dermatology. But there just wasn't a nutrition and lifestyle or a preventative medicine society.”
"We're taught about 10 to 24 hours over five to six years in medical school on nutrition."
The British Medical Journal announced the launch of a journal on the science and politics of nutrition in June 2018.
Dr Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the BMJ, said “It's time we recognised that food and nutrition are core to health. There is a growing body of research out there that needs to be published - and we want to contribute to that effort."
Dr Michael Mosley, presenter of BBC One's Trust Me I'm A Doctor, said, "Unfortunately it's not part of the traditional training. At medical school I learnt almost nothing about nutrition. And I have a son at medical school and it's again not part of his key curriculum.
"So I don't get the sense that there are lots of doctors out there who feel empowered to tell patients much about nutrition."
The anecdotal and clinical evidence that correct nutrition works is undoubted, but Big Pharma is constantly funding ‘research’ that denigrates the use of supplements and anything they can’t patent and make a buck from.
So when someone recommends you try something natural or you read an article that suggests a supplement might help, if you’re a sceptic, why don’t you suspend your disbelief and try it. But make sure you give it a good few months, as doing things the natural way takes a bit longer, good nutrition needs time to work in the body.
As Thomas Edison said;
““The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
