Health & Wellness
Created in conjunction with the school's medical student-led plant-based advocacy group, the Plant Based Nutrition Group (PBNG), the month-long curriculum consisted of videos, lectures, and multiple-choice quizzes relating to evidence-based science behind a whole-foods plant-based diet and how to integrate the nutrition knowledge into clinical practice.
Students received comprehensive educational materials created by both PBNG and medical group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine detailing the connection between their basic science curriculum and plant-based nutrition.
Students also attended a half-day curriculum focusing entirely on plant-based nutrition, which included students participating in panels and a cooking demo, meeting more than 25 patients who have reversed chronic diseases with a whole-foods plant-based diet, sampling plant-based food products, and speaking with chefs who shared their cooking expertise.
The students also met healthcare providers who emphasize plant-based nutrition in their practice, including Joel Kahn, MD, Robert Breakey, MD, Caroline Trapp, RN, PhD, Margret Swenor, DO, Mary Roberts, PT, and Lisa McDowell, RD.
"Study after study has demonstrated that a plant-based diet is not only healthier, but could even help prevent, treat, and reverse some of the leading causes of pain and suffering in America and across the world," PBNG president Lakshman (Lucky) Mulpuri told VegNews.
"The success of PBNG's Plant Based Curriculum Enhancement will have national implications for the future of clinical care and medical education.
Armed with a more comprehensive understanding of plant-based nutrition, these future physicians will be better prepared to combat the devastating effects of chronic disease that millions of American's face every year."
Reader Comments
The plant based indoctrination doesn't seem so surprising now.
"Study after study has demonstrated that a plant-based diet is not only healthier, but could even help prevent, treat, and reverse some of the leading causes of pain and suffering in America and across the world," PBNG president Lakshman (Lucky) Mulpuri told VegNews.
Pain and suffering is very subjective and the amount of pain and suffering varies with each individual.
it does not address the real issues that are plaguing humanity obesity, metabolic syndrome and coronary artery disease to name just a few.
Seems to me that this is creating a population of crunchy critters.
7 Reasons to take Cold showers and 1 that Really matters
Today, I could not turn the shower faucet to the right any further. Victory. My first experience with cold showers was excited but short lived. Joel Runyon had a blog post and YouTube video...This would get the critters a-roaming
Pass the bacon please.
The human alimentary system is designed as omnivorous. The science is clear: we need the nutrients provided by animals and fish.
This month-long
As it is, doctors are stunningly ignorant about nutrition and health and drug interactions. It's absolutely no wonder patients get even more sick when they trust doctors. There is no way one can ingest enough choline from a 'plant-based' regimen. Hello fatty liver, liver failure, mental confusion, dementia...
I thrive on fish n meat twice a day atleast! I'd even snack on bacon in my sleep if i could.
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In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts...I wonder if the presenters were related to Bellingcat and its motley offspring?
It started way back when with whoever came up with the phrase "eat your greens, they're good for you".
Comment: While it's nothing new to have medical students go through an indoctrination of propaganda rather than an actual health education, this is still quite alarming. Soon doctors will have not only a pill for every occasion, but a pill and a radical dietary change. As if the US could afford to get any less healthy.
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