Humanity's diet is the single leading cause of death, exacting an even greater health

burden than smoking.

This makes sense, since we are what we eat, literally, physically.

If we continue to rebuild our body every day with shoddy materials, there's no wonder

we run into trouble.

For example, not eating enough fruits and vegetables is blamed for millions of deaths every

year.

We should eat fruits and vegetables as if our lives depended on it, because in a way it appears

they do.

Most Americans may be suffering from diet-related diseases, yet most are not being educated

about nutrition from their doctors.

Maybe that's actually a good thing, given how little doctors tend to know about nutrition.

Physicians are typically seen as trustworthy sources of nutrition by the general public.

But in a head-to-head test of nutrition knowledge, doctors versus patients,

the physicians should be more knowledgeable about nutrition than their patients.

These results suggest that this is not necessarily true.

And we all know how little the general public knows about nutrition.

The American diet is the number one cause of death in the United States. Yet doctors

average less than 20 hours of nutrition training, and that's mostly like biochemistry

of vitamins. The amount of clinical nutrition training they may get is less than five hours.

Take cardiology, for example.

Dr. Ornish's landmark lifestyle at heart trial asked the question, can lifestyle change

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