Currently the system is designed to treat sick people... Not prevent them from getting sick. Your findings don't surprise me one bit. I don't think that they tell the whole story though... For example, there could be nutrition eduction prior to medical school. A lot of it is picked up during chemistry and Anatomy and Physiology. Pharmacology. Microbiology. I've only had 1 nutrition specific class, but many of my classes have related nutrition to body systems. I haven't been to med school. That's not to say that I don't agree with you, that 100% of med schools should have some specific nutrition training. Traditionally that's not been done because there's no money in teaching people to eat right. If they did that, you wouldn't have sick patients to treat. I think you'll see over the next 10-20yrs as the affordable care act is further implemented, there will be more incentive to teach people how to be well and take care of themselves, so that they don't end up with a chronic disease... Diet, exercise, lifestyle choices... Will all be areas of increased patient education. The idea is that the doctors will be paid for providing care as opposed to providing treatment... Get the patients in for yearly physicals, catch the high blood pressure and high cholesterol early, give them regular vaccinations... Nutrition education. These things are cheap. It's when people don't go to the doctor for 10-15 yrs and have advanced chronic disease that medicine becomes expensive... and the system currently exploits these sick people.
I need to stop there... My blood pressure is getting elevated...
I need to stop there... My blood pressure is getting elevated...