RFK Jr’s plan to improve America’s diet is missing the point
Jessica Hamzelou
created: Aug. 29, 2025, 9 a.m. | updated: Sept. 3, 2025, 8:40 a.m.
“I’m working with Linda on forcing medical schools … to put nutrition into medical school education,” Kennedy said during a cabinet meeting on August 26.
The next day, HHS released a statement calling for “increased nutrition education” for medical students.
But it’s not as though medical students aren’t getting any nutrition education.
Kennedy has referred to a 2021 survey suggesting that medical students in the US get only around one hour of nutrition education per year.
But the AAMC argues that nutrition education increasingly happens through “integrated experiences” rather than stand-alone lectures.
3 months, 2 weeks ago: MIT Technology Review