Background Despite a large evidence base to demonstrate the health benefits of regular
physical activity (PA), few physicians incorporate PA counseling into office visits. Inadequate …

Nutrition plays an important role in health promotion and disease prevention and treatment
across the lifespan. Physicians and other healthcare professionals are expected to counsel …

Objective: Despite the increased emphasis on obesity and diet-related diseases, nutrition
education remains lacking in many internal medicine training programs. We evaluated the …

Physical activity (PA) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and treatment. There is,
however, a considerable disparity between public health policy, clinical guidelines and the …

Background Although a poor diet is the number one risk factor for early death in the United
States and globally, physicians receive little to no training in dietary interventions and lack …

This study was conducted to investigate medical students' lifestyle habits, including sleep
quality, eating and drinking patterns, physical activity, and social status. Method: This …

Background. Physicians are inadequately equipped to respond to the global obesity and
nutrition‐associated chronic disease epidemics. We investigated superiority of simulation …

Background. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) annually claims more lives and costs more
dollars than any other disease globally amid widening health disparities, despite the known …

Medical education faces an urgent need for evidence-based physician nutrition education.
Since the publication of the 1985 National Academies report “Nutrition Education in US …

Objective To describe the physical activity (PA) levels and counseling attitudes of Canadian
undergraduate medical students. Design Online or paper survey. Setting The University of …