How to Make a Nutritional Diagnosis

Abstract

Perhaps no other field in medicine is more annoying—and challenging—to today’s practicing physician than nutrition. It is ironic that while it is public knowledge that physicians rarely receive adequate training in nutrition, patients are often walking recipes of unsavory stews of nutrition information and misinformation. While few patients would claim to be experts in the more esoteric aspects of health, the lay press, health food stores and grandma herself repeat old nutrition fables with fervor and periodically invent new ones to keep the physician off guard.