Abstract
Nutrition and diet is, without doubt, of international importance in the health of the world’s people1, but what has this to do with medicine and medical education? The answer is “a great deal” and there is wide recognition of this2. The reasons why the status of nutrition should be elevated to a significant theme in both undergraduate3 and continuing medical education3 is because the medical profession has to understand more about the basic science and be vigilant about the influence of vested interests and commercial pressures
