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Despite growing burden of diet-related disease, medical education does not equip students to provide high quality nutritional care to patients: Researchers call for improved nutrition education to be integrated into the medical curriculum

Worldwide, nutrition is insufficiently incorporated into medical education, meaning that medical students lack the confidence, skills and knowledge to provide nutritional care to patients, according to a systematic review of 24 studies published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. The authors recommend that nutrition education be made compulsory for all medical students, a global benchmark […]

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Eating Organic Foods Linked to a Lower Risk of Cancer

There’s already quite a few reasons to opt for organic fruits and vegetables, and a new study identified yet another — eating organic foods is linked to a lower risk of certain cancers. In a French study of 68,946 adults, those who ate the most organic foods, compared to those who ate the least, were […]