 In the hearing to decide the fate of a California bill to mandate doctors actually be taught a little something about nutrition, you can tell the author of the bill, Dr. John McDougal, is starting to get a bit frustrated at the opposition. We're talking about over two-thirds of the problems that people suffer from are due to what they eat, and yet their physician knows virtually nothing about the human diet. So how do you correct that? It's not being done at the medical schools. It's not being done by the CMA. It's not being done by anybody. It has to be left to people who can make changes like the legislature. And I'm sure there are lots of doctors out there that say, I don't need to learn about what a person eats. But how would you feel if you took your dog or cat to a veterinarian? And the veterinarian had no idea what to feed a dog or a cat or a bird? I mean, wouldn't that require some type of correction? You take a patient to a doctor who's been trained for seven years, at least, on the human being, and you ask him what a person's to eat? They have no idea because of the fault of education. So we can fix it, or we can ignore it. I don't think we should ignore it. I think the price is too great financially and for our society and for the individual. It's too great to ignore. You hear the comments? I mean, I think it's quite obvious why people are sick in this country. And as legislators and physicians, we have a responsibility to the people that we care for. Right now, doctors are letting their patients down. And they let themselves down because the most important tool available, they know nothing about. In the end, Republican Mark Weiland had to make a choice. Between what he knew was right and vote yes, or his campaign contributor, the California Medical Association, and vote no. And I think this is one way that I am going to vote for this because even in these other specialties, there is a need that same orthopedic surgeon who wants the overweight person for a hip or a knee doesn't know what to give him. Even if they could just hand them, you know, follow this. Could I briefly respond to that? So good news, it passed. But not without first being amended. It went from requiring 12 hours to 7 hours to just striking the whole requirement for any hours altogether. Just saying the Board of Medicine could set standards to include something, anything, on the prevention and cure of chronic disease through diet, and then they even took away cure and settled on some nebulous plea for information on prevention and treatment.