"Even as lawmakers, medical professionals and his own kin call on secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign for spreading misinformation, medical education organizations are on the hook to give Kennedy their plan for expanding nutrition education requirements by Wednesday. It's one of the latest public health directives Kennedy has put forth to advance his so-called Make America Healthy Again agenda, which is heavily focused on addressing chronic illness through diet and lifestyle choices."
""The chronic disease epidemic is the most urgent and costly health crisis in America today. We can't afford another decade of delay," Kennedy wrote in an editorial published in The Wall Street Journal last month. "Reforming medical education to put nutrition at its core will equip the next generation of doctors with the tools to restore the health of our nation-to make America healthy again.""
"'It's best when accrediting bodies and medical institutions make changes to medical training on their own based on public need and the very best scientific evidence,' said Stephen Devries, executive director of the Gaples Institute, which uses education and advocacy to advance the role of nutrition and lifestyle in medicine. 'That said, the government does have a stake in the preparedness of physicians to deal with major public health issues like this current burden of diet-related disease.'"
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed medical education organizations to submit plans to expand nutrition education requirements by Wednesday amid calls for his resignation over spreading misinformation. The directive is part of a Make America Healthy Again agenda focused on addressing chronic illness through diet and lifestyle. The directive frames chronic disease as an urgent, costly national health crisis and calls for reforming medical education to center nutrition and equip future physicians to restore population health. Nutrition education experts warn that training changes alone will not lower chronic disease rates but hope a federal push will spur institutional reform.
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