Worcester Congressman Jim McGovern is co-sponsoring a bipartisan resolution calling on medical schools and residency programs to provide nutrition education.
Conditions linked to diet include obesity, type-2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer, which are leading causes of death and disability.
Nevertheless, McGovern notes that physicians-in-training receive little or no education on the relationship between diet and health.
The issue has been of critical importance for the Congressman for some time.
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