04 Nov 2019 --- Lacking nutritional training in medical studies results in physicians missing out on possibilities to provide patients with comprehensive counseling on nutrition and dietary behavior. This is according to a joint study analyzing several articles on medical students’ nutrition expertise. NutritionInsight spoke with two of the study’s researchers who highlight that adequate nutritional education would improve physicians’ nutritional and dietary counsel with their patients, in great need as the study emphasizes how poor diets continue to contribute to global deaths annually.