While this article from Gary Scattergood is written about the issue of malnutrition in the UK it is certainly appropriate to raise the same question in the US. In the late 60s when I was in college earning my NP degrees I studied nutrition as an integrated part of the the curriculum. Certainly we knew then that malnutrition was an issue directly related to health, not some obscure thought. Even then we knew cancer for instance was a nutritional disease as were many hospital related deaths. Disease now is just thought of as a deficiency of some pharmaceutical drug and the problem is not addressed from all possible and interrelated issues. Shame on health providers, shame on dietitians, government, and big business along with seemingly ignorant legislators. Put the spotlight on malnutrition instead of obesity The UK is in dire need of a national strategy to tackle malnutrition, which is at least as big a problem to public health and the public...
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