The Nation - News from July 24, 1985

U.S. medical schools, while cramming future doctors full of technical know-how, are teaching them too little about food and nutrition despite growing evidence of the importance of diet in disease prevention, a National Research Council committee on nutrition said. However, the president of the Assn. of American Medical Colleges quickly disagreed, saying current medical school attention to nutrition, which he called “the ‘in’ thing” in society, is about right, considering all the other information students must learn in four years. The report said: “The teaching of nutrition in most U.S. medical schools is inadequate.”