Is your doctor healthier than you?

goose2005 · 06-08-2012 09:37PM

marshbaboon wrote: »

My old doctor was healthy enough I guess but must have been trained during the 70's. He honestly never had any idea what was going on. Put me into the habit of only ever going to see a GP if I need prescription drugs.

Saying that overweight doctors shouldn't be giving dietary advice is an ad hominem. They can be perfectly educated on the subject and able to provide guidance on it, even if they spend most of their free time sliding egg mcmuffins down their fat gullet.

More likely to be paté and steaks - same effect though.

Shryke · 06-08-2012 10:35PM

A girl I went to school with did nutrition in college. She inflated like a balloon and I don't say that to be mean. I wouldn't take advice off her in a fit. Nutrition is such a simple thing I can't help wondering what gets taught to flesh it out. Anyone could educate themselves online in no time at all.
My own doctor is getting on but he's plenty healthy. A decent sort.

mikemac1 · 06-08-2012 10:52PM

Shryke wrote: »

A girl I went to school with did nutrition in college. She inflated like a balloon and I don't say that to be mean. I wouldn't take advice off her in a fit. Nutrition is such a simple thing I can't help wondering what gets taught to flesh it out. Anyone could educate themselves online in no time at all.

The people who knows most about diets are people who constantly fail

If you trained hard, were disciplined and ate right then one diet would sort you out.

But some fail and fail and then fail again and instead of blaming themselves they read more and so they know everything from books but they never actually apply it

Do you work in an office?
I bet there are some wimmins who talk about diets all day yet go eat biscuits for evelenses

Shryke · 06-08-2012 11:02PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The people who knows most about diets are people who constantly fail

If you trained hard, were disciplined and ate right then one diet would sort you out.

But some fail and fail and then fail again and instead of blaming themselves they read more and so they know everything from books but they never actually apply it

Do you work in an office?
I bet there are some wimmins who talk about diets all day yet go eat biscuits for evelenses

You make a good point although this girl chose to study it in college, rather than be obsessive about losing weight it seemed that as she learned about nutrition she put on massive weight which made little sense and I wouldn't listen to anything she would say. Anyone that would need a nutritionist without some kind of specialist condition is really a person looking for someone less stupid than them to take their money.
I carried extra weight myself for a while years ago now and had no problem dropping a few stone.
Not meaning to rant or give abuse here really so I'll hush up now.

his_dudeness · 06-08-2012 11:31PM

The bad habits start in Med School.

Speaking from experience (i'm a "junior" doc, 4 years post graduation), unless you compete at sports at a very high level through college, be it rowing or GAA/Sigerson or athletics, the impetus to keep healthy versus study inevitably falls on the study side, clocking up 14/16 hours days in the library for 6 to 8 months a year, fueled by coffee and fairly unhealthy college canteen food, not too mention blowing off steam at the weekends with way more alcohol than needed. Add in stress, which lead to more people in my graduatiing class smoking at the end of college than did when we started 6 years prior, it certainly puts the docs on the back foot before they've even started working!

Then there's the working environment. Long days in illegal 28/36 (and occasionally longer) shifts where they are usually confined to the hospital grounds due to the need to cover in case of cardiac arrests, means the only food accessble is again dodgy hospital canteen food or ordering take away in to the hospital. Coffee and cigarettes play a major part in the diet too. Then when they do leave work, they're too tired for proper exercise.

This, I accept, is a generalisation and things are getting better. There has been huge growth in marathon running and triathlons in the medical profession recently, and there was even an inaugaraul National Medical Half Marathon a few months ago. But not everyones into that sort of thing.

If everyone followed their own good advice, we probably wouldn't have ended up in this economic situation (there surely is something ironic of bankers going bankrupt......)

Is your doctor healthier than you?

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