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Studies show most med schools fall short of the 25 hours of training on nutrition recommended by the National Academies of Sciences.
Under the new initiative, participating schools will add 40 hours of instruction.
Kennedy says this will bolster doctors' ability to prevent and treat diet-related chronic disease.
The move is widely welcome, and it's backed by the American Medical Association, among others.
But as nutrition policy expert Marion Nessel says, The devil is in the details.
Schools will choose from 71 suggested topics.
While some are mainstream, she says others, like the use of supplements in healthy people, don't have much science to back them up.
The National Academies of Sciences have long recommended that medical schools provide at least 25 hours of nutrition education.
But studies have found most med schools fall short of this standard.
According to senior health and human services officials, 52 medical schools have voluntarily agreed to add 40 hours of nutrition training to their curriculum starting in the fall.
Medical schools will choose from 71 suggested topics, such as how food contributes to inflammation and chronic disease.
Officials describe the initiative as an effort to find common ground with the medical community.
who strongly disagree with Kennedy's positions on other issues, like vaccines.
South Carolina reported just 23 new cases this week.
That's a far cry from where things stood a month ago when officials reported a whopping 248 new cases in a single week.
Public health officials credit the slowdown in new case reports to an uptick in the number of people getting vaccinated against measles, one of the most contagious diseases known.
At a recent mobile vaccine clinic in Spartanburg County, the epicenter of the outbreak, Tracy Hobbs showed up to get her five-year-old twins vaccinated.
Officials say more people will need to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of a new surge in cases.