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Food as Medicine: What is the Impact on Foot and Ankle Surgery?

Kelsey Millonig, DPM, MHA, AACFAS

 

Preventable chronic diseases currently overwhelm the US health care system. Physicians experience this firsthand daily, yet Western medicine places little priority on lifestyle modification as a treatment modality. There is not the time nor a support system in place for physicians to prioritize these concepts with patients, least of all nutritional counseling. Even if we had the time, our general medical education system does not educate physicians in-depth on nutrition.1 Instead, we must find the time to educate ourselves on these topics, and with widely available misinformation available on nutrition, we begin to question any resource … read more