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“The American Medical Association (AMA) applauds the Administration’s new Dietary Guidelines for spotlighting the highly processed foods, sugar-sweetened beverages, and excess sodium that fuel heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. The Guidelines affirm that food is medicine and offer clear direction patients and physicians can use to improve health.
“Today the AMA is making significant commitments to improve clinical competency, deliver educational resources for physicians, and work with Congress to enact meaningful, lasting nutrition change that can improve lives. The AMA is focused on helping physicians translate this science into everyday care and helping patients improve their overall health.” –Bobby Mukkamala, MD, President, American Medical Association
The AMA will:
- Launch a curated collection of nutrition education resources and continuing medical education (CME) on the AMA Ed Hub™. Additionally, the AMA will make curated educational resources available through institutional curriculum products that face specific audiences of medical students, residents and fellows, and physicians;
- Convene a series of roundtables with physicians, nutrition experts, and public health leaders to strengthen nutrition education and clinical competency. These efforts–driven by the new Guidelines–should also make it easier for physicians to talk to patients about the role of food in preventing, and even treating, chronic disease; and
- Work with Congress to incentivize nutrient dense foods, expand food labeling efforts, define ultra-processed foods, and increase investment in nutrition research.
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