A Collaboration to Increase Nutrition Work in General Medical Practice and Make It More Effective

摘要

The organisers of this symposium are an international collaboration of nutrition professors and leaders of colleges of general medical practitioners. A proposed name for our group is GPN (general practice nutrition). Our first and third invited workshops were at Heelsum, near Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 1995 and 1998. The papers at these workshops are published in leading nutrition journals and some copies of the supplements are available at this XVII ICN symposium. We had open workshops at the XVI International Nutrition Congress in Montreal (1997) and at the 8th European Nutrition Conference (1999). Our vision is that GPs are in the best position to give scientifically based and credible nutrition advice to the families they look after. There are many more family doctors than qualified dietitians or nutritionists. Doctors are trusted. They aren't selling some product. Their function is to help those who consult them to get healthy and stay healthy. It is acceptable for a GP to talk about diet, even if it seems remote from the presenting symptom.