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Up Close and Personal with Andrew Weil

By Today's Dietitian Staff — 2014

There's a range of none to poor nutrition education in medical curriculum. Doctors are functionally illiterate in nutrition, unless they make an effort to get themselves up to speed.—Andrew Weil

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