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Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing, says that conventional doctors are "nutritionally illiterate."3 After leaving medical school, doctors receive their ongoing education about the efficacy of new drugs from pharmaceutical company representatives, whose main objective is to convince doctors to sell their products. Dr. Bruce Lipton notes that "medical doctors are caught between an intellectual rock and a corporate hard place," and calls them "pharmaceutical patsies.

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While probably 98% of doctors remains nutritionally illiterate and hopelessly brainwashed by Big Pharma into believing that drugs are the only answer to disease, there are a few outstanding, brilliant doctors who are interested in promoting what really works: Superfoods, disease prevention, high-grade nutritional supplements and natural healing modalities. If you believe in freedom and you want to support a candidate that will actually work to restore it, Ron Paul is the only sensible choice for the next U.S. President.

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Although there are some exceptions (doctors who have taught themselves nutrition), most doctors remain so nutritionally illiterate that they have no familiarity with the natural plant-based medicines found in everyday fruits and vegetables. Fact #7: Nobody has any interest in your health except you. No corporation, no doctor, and no government has any desire to actually make you well. Keeping you sick makes it easier for them to control and financially exploit you.

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Americans Are Flat Out "Nutritionally Illiterate" Other alarming developments are occurring while celebrities are pushing sugary, fatty foods: portion sizes are careening out of control; consumption of high-fructose-laden products is skyrocketing; soft drinks are being removed from schools only to be replaced by unnutritious diet drinks and sugary sports drinks, folks are grabbing meals or snacks on the run; and runaway unethical marketing continues unabated. Most Americans are flat-out nutritionally naive.

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Andrew Weil even calls his colleagues—doctors—"nutritionally illiterate." He's right in that—doctors are generally nutritionally illiterate. They have almost no understanding of the role of phytonutrients in healing, and they do not recognize or use the healing power of foods to help patients create a healing result. Instead, they often turn to drugs, which are more dangerous than healing foods. They don't work as well and they're far more expensive.

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In other words, every year we are graduating thousands of nutritionally illiterate doctors from medical schools. They flat out don't understand the fundamentals of nutrition, and they can't possibly teach it to patients. Furthermore, most of them don't practice good nutritional habits themselves! So in this section, we'll talk about nutrition in humans, and we'll try to explore some of the reasons why nutrition has become so highly politicized and why it earns such disfavor from food companies, pharmaceutical companies, practitioners of conventional medicine, and even the FDA.

But nutrition isn't taught by organized medicine and doctors remain nutritionally illiterate. So there's no channel today through which nutrition is taught to the general public. There are also no profits in nutrition. The pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, hospitals, surgeons, and food producers all profit from your disease and your sickness. Nobody profits when you get healthy. In fact, the healthier you get, the less money all of those organizations receive. We also talked about the myths of "three balanced meals a day." You can't get optimum nutrition from three balanced meals.

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These nutritionally illiterate hucksters don't even believe that food has anything at all to do with mental health -- an idea so preposterous that only delusional health professional could possibly believe it. And yet it's widely believed throughout psychiatry today: Food and mental health are not related, they declare. Astonishing. Who's qualified to talk about mental health anyway? Critics of my criticism of psychiatry will no doubt say I'm not qualified to talk about mental health.

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He says that doctors are "nutritionally illiterate." This is a direct quote from Andrew Weil. Dr. Weil, of course, is a real pioneer and has done outstanding work from within the system of organized medicine. He is a product of the medical industry, yet he was able to open his eyes and see beyond his training that there's a whole universe of information that people need to know to be healthy, and that includes nutrition. He tells the story that when he was in medical school, which was four years of training, he had, I believe he said, one hour of training on nutrition.

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General practitioners are some of the most nutritionally illiterate professionals in our country. But that's changing. If you're a GP reading this, you probably understand how important it is to integrate nutrition into your practice. But it's the old school medical doctors who refuse to learn nutrition, who refuse to believe that food has any effect whatsoever on healing, and who continue to stick to drugs, surgery, and radiation as the only modalities for treating patients. And that is a mindset that I think belongs in the dark ages of medicine. It's time to move beyond that.

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For example, when I say that doctors are nutritionally illiterate, I don't mean every single doctor practicing medicine today is ignorant about nutrition. There are a few who actually have studied nutrition. In fact, the best nutritionists I know are MDs who went beyond medical school training and actually took the time to make themselves experts in nutrition. Similarly, when I say that pharmaceuticals are harmful or produce dangerous side effects, I don't mean that every single pharmaceutical is dangerous or harmful in every circumstance. I simply mean that most of them are.

He's right in that—doctors are generally nutritionally illiterate. They have almost no understanding of the role of phytonutrients in healing, and they do not recognize or use the healing power of foods to help patients create a healing result. Instead, they often turn to drugs, which are more dangerous than healing foods. They don't work as well and they're far more expensive. Credibility must be demonstrated In order to have credibility when you're talking about health, you must be able to demonstrate health on your own.

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Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing and many other books on health and healing, even calls conventional doctors, "nutritionally illiterate." Medical schools have no credibility either, because they are basically conduits for teaching the use of drugs, pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, and surgical procedures to an army of doctors who, in practice, are often little more than glorified drug dealers. So if we are going to adopt nutritional strategies and actually prevent disease in the United States, we're going to have to start teaching our doctors about foods.

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These practices— which earned for them the title of food faddists from AMA nutritionists, the nutritionally illiterate public and professions, and the white flour industry itself—are a classic example of the philosophy of Catch 22. In essence, these "food faddists" are retaining in or restoring to the diet the important nutrients the millers prefer to sell as pig feed. Consider the nutrient values of wheat germ, which is to wheat what the egg yolk is to the egg: the source of new life, and as such, a storehouse of good nutrition.

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