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Global healthcare systems are failing; nutrition policy needs to change now, says leading academic

15-May-2013 - Last updated on 28-Sep-2021 at 11:33 GMT

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Nations and populations are in peril of being swamped by the cost of their healthcare systems unless a severe nutrition policy rethink can occur, says a leading academic.

“Public health is in a desperate state and it is getting worse," said professor Paul Clayton from Oxford University's Institute of Food Brain & Behaviour and the University of Pecs.

"We need to find a way for the industry and the regulatory sector to communicate more effectively and to work in the public’s benefit.”

Professor Clayton added: “Both the regulators and certainly the industry I think are looking at this nutrition health nexus through a prism that is monotherapeutic or oligotherapeutic at best and it is very clear that there are grotesque public health problems which are overwhelming our healthcare facilities…”

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Posted by Steve Collins, 14 August 2013 - 06:49 GMT

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Get more RDs working with populations across all health-care systems

Posted by Mary-Jo Overwater-Gervasio, MSc, MMSc,RD, 23 May 2013 - 10:45 GMT

Another simple step to enabling people to get the messages of what foods and diets really work to get folks healthier is to get more registered dietitians employed much more intensely. prolifically, and primarily in public health,community health, and, of course, in conventional healthy-care sectors. That is, getting an RD on board AFTER the MD or nurse has failed to get the message across about diet and dietary change recommendations is counterproductive -- get the RD FIRST and enable an RD visit to be covered by 3rd party insurers. Likewise, having a health-care system where an RD gets 15-20 minutes to instruct a patient about optimal diet does NOT work -- it takes a few visits, 45 minutes to an hour at a time - it's worth it! Get more RDs working with academic nutritionists on health-care policies and procedures for local, national, and global health-care systems. RDs are educated and experienced in delivering the best care to the public on how to make effective and do-able changes to healthier diets so as to optimize the nutrition-health nexus. This is what we do! MDs, nurses, public health nutritionists are too busy with other aspects of medical care and/or policy. RDs are the missing link to what could be health-care systems that truly accomplish what they need to in order to get people, countries, and the world best-nourished and healthier.