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=== Education ===
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Nutrition is taught in schools in many countries. In [[England and Wales]], the [[Personal and social education|Personal and Social Education]] and Food Technology curricula include nutrition, stressing the importance of a balanced diet and teaching how to read nutrition labels on packaging. In many schools, a Nutrition class will fall within the Family and Consumer Science (FCS) or Health departments. In some American schools, students are required to take a certain number of FCS or Health related classes. Nutrition is offered at many schools, and, if it is not a class of its own, nutrition is included in other FCS or Health classes such as: Life Skills, Independent Living, Single Survival, Freshmen Connection, Health etc. In many Nutrition classes, students learn about the food groups, the food pyramid, Daily Recommended Allowances, calories, vitamins, minerals, malnutrition, physical activity, healthful food choices, portion sizes, and how to live a healthy life.<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Rizvi | first=DaliyaS | date=2022 | title=Health education and global health: Practices, applications, and future research | journal=Journal of Education and Health Promotion | language=en | volume=11 | issue=1 | page=262 | doi=10.4103/jehp.jehp_218_22 | doi-access=free | issn=2277-9531 | pmc=9621358 | pmid=36325224}}</ref>

A 1985 US [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] report entitled ''Nutrition Education in US Medical Schools'' concluded that nutrition education in medical schools was inadequate.<ref name="p. 4">Commission on Life Sciences. (1985). ''Nutrition Education in US Medical Schools'', [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=597&page=4 p. 4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607120934/http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=597&page=4 |date=2011-06-07 }}. National Academies Press.</ref> Only 20% of the schools surveyed taught nutrition as a separate, required course. A 2006 survey found that this number had risen to 30%.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors=Adams KM, Lindell KC, Kohlmeier M, Zeisel SH | title=Status of nutrition education in medical schools | journal=Am. J. Clin. Nutr. | volume=83 | issue=4 | pages=941S–14S | year=2006 | pmid=16600952 | pmc=2430660 | doi=10.1093/ajcn/83.4.941S}}</ref> Membership by physicians in leading professional nutrition societies such as the [[American Society for Nutrition]] has generally declined from the 1990s.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=McClave | first1=Stephen A. | last2=Mechanick | first2=Jeffrey I. | last3=Bistrian | first3=Bruce | last4=Graham | first4=Toby | last5=Hegazi | first5=Refaat | last6=Jensen | first6=Gordon L. | last7=Kushner | first7=Robert F. | last8=Merritt | first8=Russell | date=1 December 2016 | title=What is the significance of a physician shortage in nutrition medicine? | journal=Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition | volume=34 | issue=6 Suppl | pages=7S–20S | doi=10.1177/0148607110375429 | pmid=21149831}}</ref>