It’s still a shock learning how little training about nutrition medical students get. Whereas JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, ranks food as the single most important factor when it comes to premature death and diseases, hardly any medical school offers real education about the health effects of what we eat. In the US, only a quarter of med schools offers 25 hours of nutrition training. That’s recommended by the National Academy of Sciences, but not required. Thankfully, a study in culinary medicine is attracting more and more med students who recognize they’re missing a crucial ingredient of their knowledge.
Culinary medicine offers what students don’t get at med school
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