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Latest Type 2 Issues Articles You rely on your physicians to
recommend the best therapy, but how much do they know about
vitamins and nutrition? About two hours worth is what they
probably learned during medical school. "Next to nothing," is
how much Elson Haas, MD, learned about nutrition in his formal
training. Haas is a physician in San Rafael, California, and the
author of Staying Healthy with Nutrition, but he had to discover
this field on his own. Chances are that, like Haas, most doctors
keep up on the latest studies regarding vitamin and mineral
supplementation, but the background in preventive medicine
through proper nutrition might not be there. Jeffrey Blumberg,
PhD, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University, is an
antioxidant expert. "Physicians still are largely untrained in
nutrition. It's often considered alternative medicine today, but
if you go back to the 1920s, a