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Nutrition is important because your food choices each day affect your health.

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Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote your overall health.

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Moreover, Unhealthy eating habits have contributed to the obesity epidemic in Canada: nearly 5,000 Canadian students between the ages of six and 17 intake less nutritious food, like sugary beverages, candy, and salty snacks spiked during school hours.

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Even for people at a healthy weight, a poor diet is associated with major health risks that can cause illness and even death. These include heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain types of cancer. By making smart food choices, you can help protect yourself from these health problems. The risk factors for adult chronic diseases, like hypertension and type 2 diabetes, are increasingly seen in younger ages, often a result of unhealthy eating habits and increased weight gain.

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Dietary habits established in childhood often carry into adulthood, so teaching children how to eat healthy at a young age will help them stay healthy throughout their life.

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The link between good nutrition and healthy weight, reduced chronic disease risk, and overall health is too important to ignore. By taking steps to eat healthy, you'll be on your way to getting the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy, active, and strong. As with physical activity, making small changes in your diet can go a long way, and it's easier than you think!

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What is the Ministry of Education doing to increase the students/communities knowledge about health and nutrition?

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What the Health clearly demonstrated the impacts a daily diet can have on our lives and the planet. We learned that while killing and harming animals, we directly harm and kill ourselves in one way or another. Consequently, even the Canadian government or health organizations are disguising for the hidden truths behind food production in order to promote agriculture and livestock by companies. We watched that even hospitals benefit off of our illnesses and diseases, which brings me to my main question here. Why is the Canadian medical school curriculum limiting soon-to-be doctors understanding of nutrition? Are courses about nutrition even included? If we do not have enough nutrition courses in the curriculum, who should we rely on for accurate medical information and how does this limited understanding of nutrition effect society.

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How does limited understanding of nutrition effect society?

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How does limited understanding of nutrition effect society?

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If doctors aren’t being educated more efficiently on such widespread issues like nutrition, it impacts patients/society significantly because the primary service a doctor is required to provide is how to maintain a healthy, safe, and active lifestyle. If they are not caring for their patients in the proper way or preventing illnesses by eliminating the root cause which is diet/nutrition, can we even trust doctors?

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Canadian medical students are lacking adequate education in nutrition which shows in a survey
done by the Canadian Medical School Association. According to a survey distributed to 9
universities across Canada in 2015 including University of Ottawa, Toronto, and McMaster
(Collier, 2015). Of the 933 students who responded to the survey, 87.2% said their undergraduate
medical program should dedicate more time to nutrition education.

Many survey respondents said they were somewhat comfortable in their knowledge of basic
nutrition concepts and the role nutrition plays in disease prevention. However, they also said they
lacked sufficient knowledge about the role nutrition plays in treating diseases, are ill-equipped to
counsel patients on their nutrient requirements across all stages of their lives and have trouble
identifying credible sources of nutrition information (Collier, 2015).
Therefore, this relates back to What the Health because we are simply perpetuating the cycle of
making patients suffer in pain through medicinal and different treatment options when in the first
place we aren’t even educating soon-to-be doctors efficiently in the number one leading problem
of all diseases, which is nutrition or how food is cons

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If we were to look at statistics from another country, most medical schools in the United States
such as Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis or New York University of
Medicine teach less than 25 hours of nutrition over four years or no nutrition electives at all . Also, less than 20% of medical schools have a single course required in nutrition.Therefore, these findings show us that the problem of limited nutrition knowledge within the
medical curriculum is not only widespread at home, however other nations as well. In order to
overcome these issues, institutions like the government and health organizations need to prioritize
the public’s health opposed to profit. Society as a whole needs to be more educated on these issues
from a critical perspective through initiatives such as raising more awareness in schools, or similar
documentaries, and large media platforms. We can only eliminate this problem if we find the right
solutions to it, rather than adding onto a toxic cycle of manipulating society in order to gather more
wealth for large organizations, which includes universities, medical schools, and health institutions.

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Why would universities fund other electives opposed to nutrition?

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After looking at the what the health documentary in class, majority of us had admitted we were influenced. This is because we expect our doctors to know about the correct diet and lifestyle for us and have been given enough education during medical school. But we are wrong! Nutrition is the least and most underestimated course in Canadian and American medical schools.

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As we already know, most deaths and illnesses are preventable with a good diet routine. Looking at some of our close by med schools such as the one in University of Toronto, soon-to-be-doctors are only given between 20-30 hours of nutrition knowledge from their 4 years. Also most shockingly, nutrition courses are not prerequisites for our soon-to-be-doctors. Not only is this the case in Canada but it is the same in the U.S.

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Most of this research is based on American medical schools but nonetheless, the situation is the exact same in Canadian medical schools.

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Why are doctors given more knowledge on studies that will not help much to contribute in clinics rather than educating them in nutrition due to high obesity and chronic illness rates today?