Doctors Not Trained in Nutrition

Dear CTM

I am just in the middle of reading Phillip Day's Health Wars and I totally agree that doctors are not trained in the field of nutrition. At the moment there is a lot of advertising on TV in Australia saying that if you have a weight problem, call now to make an appointment with your doctor so he/she can help you. I actually work for a world-famous weight loss company and a couple of years ago there were so many doctors coming to see us it was a joke. One doctor said to me that "he doesn't eat all day and then has a large meal at night, why aren't I losing weight?" I thought "you're the doctor, you tell me." My sister went to a doctor about weight loss because she was desperate. She was told to keep her mouth shut so she couldn't put anything in there. Absolutely disgusting. What an attitude.

Yours
Suzanne Cox
Australia