Medical school might be the gold standard for training doctors—but when it comes to nutrition, some of what’s being taught is straight out of the 1980s. You’d think the people who save lives for a living would get the most cutting-edge dietary education, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
Many medical students still sit through lectures that recycle outdated, oversimplified, and sometimes flat-out wrong nutrition “facts.” It’s not their fault—the curriculum just hasn’t caught up. Let’s pull back the curtain on eight nutrition myths that are still haunting med school classrooms and, by extension, doctors’ offices everywhere.
