Doctor's Orders: Getting Tomorrow's Medics Cooking
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The NHS is at crisis point. Despite the diet books, the fitness videos, the health bloggers, in 2016, Public Health England estimated that Illness associated with lifestyle costs the NHS £11 billion every year.
But are we missing something obvious? Could we bring down the cost to the taxpayer, reduce pressure on the health system, with simple advice on what we should eat and drink when we go to see our GP?
A growing group of medical professionals think so. Meet the doctors demanding better training on food and nutrition for students at medical school; Dr Rangan Chatterjee (BBC One's Doctor In The House), Dr Michael Mosley, (BBC Two's Trust Me I'm a Doctor) and Dr Rupy Aujla (The Doctor's Kitchen) and many more, all believe that if tomorrow's doctors were taught more about nutrition and diet, it could have a transformative effect on the health of the UK.
In this programme Professor Sumantra Ray, doctor and founding chair of NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health describes a decade of work which could soon see widespread training for trainee doctors. And Sheila Dillon meets the students taking the conversation about food and health into their own hands.
Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced by Clare Salisbury
Photo credit Neil Macaninch (above).
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| 0:57.0 | What comes to mind is one particular GP setting consultation where the gentleman had developed sleep apnea which means that they |
| 1:06.0 | don't sleep very well they pause breathing in their sleep and as a result they are very |
| 1:11.0 | tired during their day and that's very much associated with |
| 1:14.3 | obesity and he was a lawyer driver and he was basically at risk of losing his job |
| 1:20.2 | when it came to kind of detailed questions about what can I do to make myself |
| 1:25.3 | healthier as well as save my job, I think both myself as well as the GP I was |
| 1:29.7 | with were a bit at a loss. There's something wrong with our health system. |
| 1:36.0 | Illnesses that are associated with lifestyle, |
| 1:39.0 | particularly with what we eat, |
| 1:41.0 | now costs the NHS more than 11 billion pounds a year just in direct |
| 1:47.5 | costs and our future doctors say they aren't being taught the skills they need to help. |
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