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80 per cent of conditions linked to lifestyle
Dr Rangan Chatterjee has said that up to 80 per cent of his patients had conditions linked to lifestyle and diet, but warned that medical students are not taught about nutrition and diet.
Medical students, who are responsible for setting their own curriculum with guidance and standards published by the General Medical Council, argue that what they are taught is not practical or relevant to most of the medical problems they see in GP surgeries, clinics and hospitals.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, Chatterjee said: “The health landscape of the UK has dramatically changed over the last 30 or 40 years and I think the bulk of what I see as a GP now - almost 80 per cent - is in some way driven by our collective lifestyles."
The British Medical Journal recently announced that it will launch a journal on the science and politics of nutrition in June, with the magazine’s editor saying that ‘it’s time we recognised that food and nutrition are core to health’.
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