THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education announced an initiative Wednesday urging medical schools to integrate nutrition education and training.

"We train physicians to wield the latest surgical tools, but not to guide patients on how to stay out of the operating room in the first place," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wrote in a commentary announcing the initiative in the Wall Street Journal . "We know that when applied properly, nutrition counseling can prevent and even reverse chronic disease."

Medical education organizations have until Sept. 10 to submit plans detailing "the scope, timeline, standards alignment, measurable milestones, and accountability measures of their own nutrition education co

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