With all the ragging I do on certain facets of the medical profession, I get why it might seem like I’m not a fan of doctors.

But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I appreciate doctors (and I absolutely LOVE nurses).

What I don’t appreciate is the outdated, inaccurate nutrition training they receive.

It’s the low-fat, “healthy whole grains,” eat three meals and two snacks bull crap that’s been touted for decades and is the opposite of what’s good for our health.

Not only that, most of today’s doctors are taught to prescribe medication to treat illness. Nutrition is totally underestimated–if not outright overlooked–as a way to treat (and even cure!) disease.

It’s not your doctor’s fault the medical profession has been infiltrated by powerful industries who care more about money than about your health.

And since the Code Red Lifestyle’s gotten bigger and bigger, doctors and nurses left and right are joining the Code Red Lifestyle and even recommending it to their patients, because they’re seeing how it not only helps people lose weight, it actually helps them heal from disease.

Doctors genuinely care about and want to help their patients. Too many just don’t know what they don’t know.

So here are 5 things I wish your doctor knew.

Exercise is not a way to address a weight problem

Too many of my Rebels tell me that, back when they were heavy, their doctor wanted them to “lose weight,” but either didn’t tell them how, or told them to diet and exercise.

Jade Gallagher, one of my clients whose psoriatic arthritis was so painful she couldn’t put a shirt on a clothes hanger, much less exercise, told me that when she asked her arthritis doctor how to lose weight, that doctor said, “You have to exercise.”

No, she didn’t. Jade lost all her weight on Code Red with zero exercise.

Not only that, she lost her arthritis pain…for good.

I want doctors to stop telling sick, obese people they “have” to exercise for weight loss, because they don’t.

Medication has its place, but it should be a last resort

Eighty-eight percent of illnesses can be treated with nutrition.

As someone whose nutrition programs consistently heal diseases like diabetes, hypertension, fibromyalgia, and many more, I can attest to that.

So instead of whipping out the prescription pad, I’d love for doctors to start off by asking, “What are you eating? How’s your sleep? How much water do you drink?” And then “prescribing” their patients something like the Code Red Lifestyle, instead of another pill.

Medication is definitely useful and improves people’s lives. But our use of it is out of control.

Healing starts with the food we eat, not pills.

Low-fat, the food pyramid, and “healthy whole grains” do not work

Our society is the fattest and sickest it’s ever been…and it all began when our government adopted the food pyramid and low-fat diet as “healthy.”

We’ve been trying to eat low-fat and “healthy whole grains,” for decades now, yet we’ve just gotten fatter and sicker.

The food industry’s played a part in that, for sure. They took the fat out of foods, realized how nasty these foods were without fat, so added sugar to make them palatable.

Not only that, because we’re all brainwashed to believe low-fat is healthy, food companies can slap low-fat on something terrible for your health, and you’ll believe it’s good for you just because it says low-fat!

How can anyone not see the connection, here?

Telling people to “diet” is setting them up to fail

“Diets” don’t work. “Diets” want you to fail. They convince you that you can temporarily change what you’re doing to lose weight, then return to the exact habits and foods that got you fat and sick in the first place without your weight and sickness returning.

Clearly that’s not working for people, or I’d be out of business.

People need to change their lifestyle, not “diet.”

Fat is not the devil

Dietary fat is good for you, and it’s not the cause of all these diseases it gets blamed for.

Fat was demonized decades ago, after a guy named Ansel Keys decided fat was to blame for an increase in heart disease in the U.S.

He studied the diets and heart disease rates of 21 different countries. Of those 21, only 7 proved his theory, and even then there were factors he ignored, like how much sugar they ate.

He cherry-picked the 7 countries that came the closest to proving his theory, and with some help from powerful industries, convinced our government that fat is the devil.

And yet, despite the decades of low-fat, heart disease rates are the highest they’ve ever been.

Sugar is what we need to cut back on, BIG time. Not dietary fat.

There’s way more than 5 things I wish today’s doctors knew, but these 5 are at the top of the list.

And it’s part of my life’s mission to prove to doctors that nutrition is the key to helping their patients, not “a pill for every ill.”