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Medical students and nurses do take diet and nutrition courses. I'm in a prereq nutrition class right now...

• dawhizkid 8y ago
  And yet the first answer to type II diabetes is insulin therapy and other drugs and not "immediately stop eating sugar and refined carbs"
  • Herodotus38 8y ago
    Actually the first answer to type II is usually metformin, unless you present initially with pretty advanced disease.
  • cfadvan 8y ago
    What makes you believe that you won’t be presented with drug therapy as well as dietary advice?
  • mrestko 8y ago
    No it isn't. The Practice Guidelines from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists are summarized in this PowerPoint presentation from their website.[1] It is not intended for lay consumption, but you can clearly see that there is a large emphasis on diet changes and weight loss. However, as I mentioned in another comment, the reality in practice is that many people are either unwilling or unable to change their lifestyle sufficiently to reverse the condition. Even before being diagnosed with a disease there are huge returns to regularly exercising and staying fit. You feel better, look better, have more energy, sleep better, the list continues. A doctor saying, "you need to lose weight and exercise, it could help with your diabetes," is a relatively small motivator compared with all of the other benefits. 1. https://www.aace.com/files/aace_algorithm_slides.pptx https://www.aace.com/files/aace_algorithm_slides.pptx
• shlant 8y ago
  it's too bad that the level of nutritional education taught is laughable https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/doctors-nutrition-education/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/doctors-n...