"Dee Randall" <deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote in message
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> A lot of graduates in the field of nutrition work in the hospitals, don't
> they?
> Taking into consideration the state of affairs of the nutritional quality
of
> hospital food, shouldn't one connect the dots?
> Dee

You assume that hospitals run their own food services, but the fact is, most
don't. Companies like ARA (http://www.aramark.com/) run the food services
(and sometimes the ER) in many hospitals along with the food services and
medical operations in county jails and state prisons and mental
institutions. These operations go to the lowest bidder and ARA supplies
everything from the food to the employees for a set fee for the length of
the contract. I worked for one of their institutional medical services and
believe me, what counts is the almighty dollar. That said, I'm not sure that
the food in hospitals is uniformly unhealthy as much as it is unpalatable.
Besides, the graduates that I know who are professionals in the field of
nutrition have a very good understanding of the subject matter. They know
far more than MDs or chiropractors when it comes to nutrition.