The main issue of diet and nutrition is AWARENESS but sadly diet and nutrition is such a neglected subject of study that the doctors specialists and surgeons do not study for more than a single semester on nutrition and diet but go thro a course of nine to thirteen semesters of education and qualification. Is it true that the majority have an absolute trust on these doctors whereas the dietician is actually the person they meet on their way out.Take a look at the major hospitals and the place where the hospital dietician sits if at all they have one. Unless we give diet and nutrition a top priority and preventive health care takes priority over curative therapy we are bound to suffer.Not only is prevention better than cure it is safer and less costly. A recent book currently available in book stores titled "what your doctor does not know about nutrition may be killing you by Dr.Strand M.D. is worth reading No I didnt write the book
