Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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How much protein should you eat?
How much saturated fat should you eat?
What's optimal?
And so they had to go through tens of thousands of scientific papers.
Make sure that every recommendation that we made is based solidly on a foundation of gold standard science.
Yeah, and then we flipped it over.
We flipped it over because the category of food that you should eat most is a broad category.
It includes vegetables.
It includes proteins, salmon and steak.
This is good for everybody.
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And that's why we're all so screwed up.
But the, you know, most diabetes can be cured through diet.
And the doctors don't know this because they don't take โ most of them aren't taking nutrition in medical school.
And we're now requiring or we're working with the medical, with the accreditors and with the testing, the people who do the MCAT to make sure there's tests on nutrition required.
We're working with all the medical colleges to make sure that now doctors are going to have 40 hours of nutrition in school.
80% of doctors say they do not feel competent to give nutrition advice.
So what are they learning?
They're learning pharmacology.