So why doesn't your doctor tell you all this stuff if it is true????

First, a doctor has about 10 minutes to see you. Twenty tops and that includes putting in your prescriptions and paper work (computer work now). He doesn't have a lot of time.

Plus, unless he has no life of his own, he likely does not have time or the inclination to read obscure dietary research nor did he get much dietary education in medical school. Only the doctors that for some reason get interested in the subject (many of the ones I link to) do they ever have the incentive to dig into it. Most of the doctors I have linked to either were obese and had run into medical problems themselves (one had a brain tumor, another had a mother with cancer) so they had a specific reason to look further than what they had been taught in medical school. There are some real interesting back stories to the doctors I have been providing links. Most doctors never have the need to question what they have been doing.

And there are vested interests in maintaining the status quo. I do not say that as a conspiracy as such, it is just that once any organization or industry matures, one of their main purposes is to remain relevant and profitable (or if a non-profit the upper management needs to remain relevant). Look at farm organizations for an example. Organizations primary goal, thought it will never be stated in their mission, is to maintain the organization. Any original good intention, over time, gives way to survival of the organization. From government to non-profit to local clubs and organizations.

Plus there is simply no money to be made promoting obscure research that would improve our health. Who gets paid or benefits (other than the individuals that would benefit from knowing) from some research that would improve a person's health? Where is the money for education? A person could say government but it gets filled with people subject to influence by lobbyist who have vested interests of their own to promote their own agenda.

Change moves at a snails pace. George Washington (the first president, that GW) died of loss of blood. His doctor at the time used the medical "best practice" of blood letting because medical knowledge at the time believed that the body produced too much blood and that illness was caused by too much so it had to be reduced. They literally bled him to death. This was done 200 years (as I recall) after another doctor had mathematically proven that the theory of blood building up had to be wrong because of the displacement of the heart made it mandatory that the blood had to recirculate. We may have better communication today so it doesn't take 200 years to get the medical information out, but it may very well take a generations of old doctors dying out before we get much medical practice change. If  doctors do not take it upon themselves to keep up on the research, they likely do not change what they prescribe, even if it is wrong. Or worse, rely on a drug rep for recommendations.

John