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ATP: Aliens, Triangles, and Physicians’ Nutrition Education in Medical School Curriculum
The nutrition logic is simple: our bodies do not know how to handle the modern foods and drinks that we feed ourselves to fuel our physiologies. Brent Pottenger, MHA asserts that physicians can no longer afford, in every sense of the word, to ignore nutrition in medical practice. And, since physicians start learning how to practice medicine in medical school, medical schools can no longer afford to ignore nutrition in their core course curriculums. Soaring healthcare costs; antibiotic resistance; iatrogenic illnesses; metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease; hospital-acquired infections; and a host of other health system challenges and road blocks have combined to produce an incoming tidal wave that threatens to decimate the operational and financial landscape of our medical institutions.