Stanford Diet Intervention Discouraged

A story about how medical students at Stanford are discouraged from considering dietary interventions for patients.

"First day at Stanford Med School, my sister brought up that somebody with migraines might need to have a dietary intervention. Her attending surgeon said 'Stop being a pussy, we didn't go to nutrition school.'

My sister was told by her professors that American patients are not going to stop eating their Big Macs, that they're going to be sedentary, and that the best thing we can do is stand with serious medicine - with the prescription pad, with the scalpel, and treat these conditions as they pop up. That is viscerally ingrained into the medical system, and that's a lie.

90% of doctors graduate without taking one nutrition class to this day."