How evidence-based medicine biases physicians against nutrition

Abstract Medical students in the United States are taught little about nutrition and dietetics. Worse yet, their training biases them against the studies that show the power of dietary approaches to managing disease. The current approach to evidence-based medicine encourages physicians to ignore any...

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Published in:Medical hypotheses 2013-12, Vol.81 (6), p.1116-1119
Main Author: Thomas, Laurie Endicott, MA, ELS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical Trials as Topic
Evidence-Based Medicine - methods
Humans
Internal Medicine
Nutritional Sciences - education
Physicians - psychology
Western World
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Summary:Abstract Medical students in the United States are taught little about nutrition and dietetics. Worse yet, their training biases them against the studies that show the power of dietary approaches to managing disease. The current approach to evidence-based medicine encourages physicians to ignore any information that does not come from a double-blind, randomized controlled trial. Yet human beings cannot be blinded to a dietary intervention. As a result, physicians are biased toward drug treatments and against dietary interventions for the management of chronic disease.
ISSN:0306-9877
1532-2777
DOI:10.1016/j.mehy.2013.10.016