“I don’t think any nutrition courses are taught in medical school. Too bad.”
They do a bit, but it’s the government ‘guidelines’ that drive everything, and guess who gets to write those:
Yep, a bunch of Vegans and Animal Rights types. And the fact that these ‘guidelines’ are now literally killing people (diabetics in particular), doesn’t matter to them - what counts is that less cows are being eaten, that simple.
The ‘guidelines’ are effectively laws for the medical practice - tell someone to cut way back on Carbs, the doctor puts his license at risk, along with putting his practice in financial jeopardy. There are doctors who know they dispensing horrific advice, but they either do that, or put everything they’ve worked for at risk. It is also very difficult to deal with mentally - when your job is to keep people healthy...easier to just keep doing it and act dumb about it.
Yeah, I don’t think most of them have nefarious intent, they are just clueless and “don’t know what they don’t know.”
I mentioned to a Dr friend of mine that I didn’t want to go to Wendy’s because I was trying to eat “clean” (i.e., avoid CAFO chicken and meat) and she literally thought I was implying the restaurant was dirty. Absolutely clueless.