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RFK Jr. to tell medical schools to teach nutrition or lose federal funding

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he will issue the edict within a year .

Kennedy said medical schools must offer nutrition courses or risk losing federal funding.

A study found that medical students spend only 19 hours on required nutrition education over their four years .

Some nutrition experts say Kennedy 's plan is "long overdue".

This spring , HHS was among several departments which canceled grants to Columbia University in protest of what it called the school's "continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students." The university said it planned to work with the federal government to restore its funding..

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