Looking for ways to eat better? Turns out your doctor may not be your best source of information.
When I was in school ('91 grad), the standard textbook in Medical schools was the Scope Manual on Nutrition. One class, one 122 page book. https://archive.org/details/scopemanualonnut00lath/page/n5/mode/2up
AFAIK the situation hasn’t changed much for M.D.s. This article states, “But a 2015 study showed only 29% of medical schools met this goal, and a 2023 study suggests the problem has become even worse – only 7.8% of med students reported 20 or more hours of nutrition education across all four years of med school.”
"These health problems are not only common and debilitating, but expensive. Treating high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol costs about US$400 billion per year. Within 25 years, those costs are expected to triple, to $1.3 trillion. " This explains why. Those costs cited are money earned by Big Pharma. It takes less time for an M.D. to write a prescription, e.g. for statins, hypertension meds, etc, than it does to educate a patient on nutrition. However the M.D. can make referrals to registered dietician, or other nutrition specialist.
