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More Nutrition Education for Doctors: Better Health for All

This resolution calls for increased education on nutrition and diet in training programs for doctors and other healthcare professionals. The goal is to better equip professionals to advise patients on diet-related health issues, which can help combat diseases like obesity and diabetes and reduce healthcare costs for citizens.
Key points
Doctors and other healthcare professionals will receive more nutrition training to better advise patients.
Increased knowledge among medical professionals about diet aims to help prevent and treat diet-related diseases, potentially improving public health.
The federal government is urged to oversee that medical education funding goes to programs with robust nutrition training.
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States recognizes the mounting personal and financial burden of diet-related disease in the United States and calls on medical schools, graduate medical education programs, and other health professional training programs to provide meaningful physician and health professional education on nutrition and diet.
Print number: HRES 784
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Process start date: 2021-11-09