Count me among the skeptics. Nobody's fool enough to deny that diet has an impact on health; it's obvious, and well-researched. It's almost certainly the case

Count me among the skeptics. Nobody's fool enough to deny that diet has an impact on health; it's obvious, and well-researched. It's almost certainly the case that nutritional interventions can reduce the severity or course of some diseases. And I don't agree with the thesis – that doctors don't pay any attention to diet. Generally speaking, they do – doctors will frequently offer advice advice regarding foods which should or should not be consumed based on an individual's medical conditions. "High levels of dairy consumption are a " was the advice given to a relative who had cancer, for example. What they won't do is advocate the use of nutritional therapies in place of conventional medicine. That's because, as far as I'm aware, there is no convincing scientific research that demonstrates a case where nutritional changes are more effective than conventional treatment options. It's trite, but we have a name for 'alternative medicine' that works – it's just 'medicine'. The benefits of particular diets are ultimately due to compounds that they do or do not contain, and that's something that can be studied. Until there is research done, such cures will remain firmly in the domain of pseudoscience.