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DESCRIPTION: Given that our diet is the #1 cause of death and disability, surely nutrition is the #1 thing doctors learn in medical school, right? Surely it’s the #1 your doctor talks to you about. How could there be such a disconnect between the available evidence and the practice of medicine? Let’s do a thought experiment…
In this video, I try to answer the question that surely must occur to anyone even dipping their toes into the lifestyle medicine literature: “Wait a second, if this were true, why didn’t my doctor tell me?” If, for example, our #1 killer can be reversed through diet, why isn’t it front page news, taught to every medical student, broadcast from every mountaintop by medical organizations and government dietary guidelines? Still confused? Check out my other videos address the question:
• Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (
• The McGovern Report (
• The Tomato Effect (
• Optimal Diet: Just Give it To Me Straight, Doc (
• Physicians May Be Missing Their Most Important Tool (
For more on the parallels between smoking then, and eating today see:
• American Medical Association Complicity with Big Tobacco (
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (
• Collaboration with the New Vectors of Disease (
• When Low Risk Means High Risk (
• The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity (
Is the risk of smoking and the Standard American Diet really comparable, though? See Animal Protein Compared to Cigarette Smoking (
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Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM
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