Food is medicine, so why do doctors know so little about food?

I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so much in medical school, but when it comes to food, which we ingest every day, which serves as the building blocks of our body, and which is therefore our daily medicine, we seem happy to skip over that. In fact, not only do we not learn about food as medicine, but we learn to use it in a way that literally makes us sick, and causes a large slice of our illness and disease, as well as taking up a large amount of our time, money and energy along the way.

Have you ever wondered why this is the case?

“Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

In ancient times, physicians understood the importance of food, and even used it in medicinal…