“Good nutrition leads to health and resistance to disease; poor nutrition leads to ill-health and susceptibility to many diseases.” Nutrition - Chapter 10. 3. Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Third Edition.

“If you are among the two out of three Americans who do not smoke or drink excessively, your choice of diet can influence your long-term health prospects more than any other action you might take.” The Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Washington, DC: US Dept of Health and Human Services; 1988.

More than $104 billion is spent for cancer including treatment, lost productivity, and mortality costs. One third of the annual 500,000 deaths from cancer, including breast, colon, and prostate cancers, may be attributed to undesirable dietary practices. Cancer Facts and Figures, Atlanta, Ga: American Cancer Society; 1994

Doctors Need More Nutrition Training. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1998; 68 Nutrition experts say American physicians are under-trained when it comes to issues of nutrition and health. Less than 6% of medical school graduates receive adequate nutrition training. "Until physicians are better trained to provide high levels of information on nutrition, Americans are missing countless opportunities to take advantage of the growing body of scientific research on the role of diet in preventing and treating disease.'' Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood, President American Society for Clinical Nutrition (ASCN)

“If you want to know what an average physician thinks a balanced diet is, look at any hospital food fed to patients, doctors, staff and visitors. Iceberg lettuce with a glob of cottage cheese and a wedge of canned pineapple. Slices of overdone and warmed-over beef that have suffered for hours in some electronic purgatory, coated with a gravy made of water, library paste, and bouillon cubes. Peas, corn and carrots--boiled.  The pie is a sickening slab of beige goo, flavoured with artificial maple sugar, in a crust of reconstituted cardboard, topped with sweetened shaving cream squirted from an aerosol bomb.” What supplements don't have. www.mothernature.com

“In a recent letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of researchers contends that hospital food is not particularly healthy, either. Led by Dr. Adam Singer of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the researchers compiled nutritional breakdowns of meals offered patients with no dietary restrictions in 57 university hospitals. Fifty-three of the menus failed to meet all the U.S. Public Health Service's dietary guidelines.” Sophia Dembling, Health & Fitness News Service, http://detnews.com/index.htmWednesday, May 14, 1997 http://detnews.com/1997/accent/9705/14/05140032.htm

“You can't teach medical students everything there is to know about nutrition. But people should graduate from medical school knowing that nutrition is integral to health.” Denise Rollinson Doctor of emergency medicine, New England Medical Center, Boston

“What's really tragic about this is that we were so busy learning how to fix broken arms, deliver babies and do all of those 'doctor' things in medical school that we considered nutrition to be boring. But after we get into practice, we spend most of the day treating people with diseases that have huge nutritional components that have long been essentially ignored. I frequently get calls from doctors across the country saying that their patients are asking questions about nutrition and its role in their conditions and they don't know what to tell them.” Michael A. Klaper, M.D., nutritional medicine specialist, Director of the Institute of Nutritional Education and Research Pompano Beach, Florida.

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