Trying to stay healthy can seem like a full-time job sometimes, especially during a pandemic.

But I'm here to make that goal a little easier.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Here's a question.

How much do doctors actually know about nutrition?

I've done a lot of research on the subject and concluded that more doctors should take the

Hippocratic oath a little more seriously.

Here's our first story.

A poor diet now outranks smoking as the leading cause of death on the planet as well specifically

in the United States.

In the US, the number one killer of Americans is the American diet.

So if diet is humanity's number one killer, then obviously it's the number one thing taught

in medical school, right?

Sadly, medical students around the world are poorly trained in nutrition.

It's not that medical students aren't interested in learning about it.

Medical schools just aren't teaching it.

Without a solid foundation of clinical nutrition knowledge and skills, physicians worldwide are

generally not equipped to even begin to have an informed conversation about nutrition with

their patients.

How bad is it?

One study assessing the clinical nutrition knowledge of medical doctors found the majority

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