[email hidden] (David Wright) posted: 011 07-27-03 12:15
wr> Oh, Anth, have you fallen for that old pro-alt chestnut about
wr> nutrition not being taught in medical school?
Eric Bohlman <[email hidden]> replied:
Eb> Actually, the chestnut is based on equivocation over what "nutrition"
Eb> means. From a lot of "alt" POVs, it means "using megadoses of dietary
Eb> supplements to cure diseases" or "curing diseases through dietary
Eb> modification alone." And using that definition, medical schools
Eb> indeed do not teach "nutrition" (except when it comes to the treatment
Eb> of deficiency diseases or excess diseases). People who use
Eb> "nutrition" in that sense wouldn't accept what medical students are
Eb> actually taught as being "nutrition."
I have to agree with Anth. Do medical schools actually teach their
med students APPLIED diet medicine and/or APPLIED nutritional
medicine?
IOW, actually how to use diet medicine to cure a health condition?
[for example, cure future strep throats by telling their patients
to give up the drinking of cow's milk and diary products
- no future need for antibiotics].
Or how to use nutritional medicine to cure a health condition?
[for example, use of a certain amino acid to cure a minor yellow
pus infection around their patient's fingernails - no antibiotics
needed].
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