{"id":68212,"date":"2026-03-05T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/rfk-jr-urges-medical-schools-to-increase-nutrition-education-training\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:22:00","slug":"rfk-jr-urges-medical-schools-to-increase-nutrition-education-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/rfk-jr-urges-medical-schools-to-increase-nutrition-education-training\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr urges medical schools to increase nutrition education training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his Maha agenda, health secretary wants schools to incorporate 40 hours of instruction<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up to the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> unveiled a new effort on Thursday aimed at increasing the amount of nutrition education taught in medical schools.<\/p>\n<p>For months, Kennedy has urged medical schools to expand their nutrition curriculum and warned that institutions refusing to do so could face cuts to federal funding, while those that adopt the changes may receive public acknowledgment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/05\/rfk-medical-school-nutrition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his Maha agenda, health secretary wants schools to incorporate 40 hours of instruction Sign up to the Breaking News US newsletter email Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr unveiled a new effort on Thursday aimed at increasing the amount of nutrition education taught in medical schools. For months, Kennedy has urged medical &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr urges medical schools to increase nutrition education training\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/rfk-jr-urges-medical-schools-to-increase-nutrition-education-training\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr urges medical schools to increase nutrition education training\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}