The problem with doctors they study how to diagnose diseases and how to match the diagnosis to medication. They don’t study nutrition and exercising.
People assume doctors should be an experts in everything related to health but the reality is the doctors knowledge on dieting and exercising sometimes even less than average person understanding. That’s why their “help” on these issues could be much more dangerous and harmful than a help from a stranger. Just because of the wrongly based trust.
I want to stress it: doctors DON’T STUDY exercising and nutrition. Just try to ask them how many hours (months) they did spend on the study. Ask them what books, YouTube videos they would recommend to watch on the subjects and why. And you will have enough information to estimate how low their real knowledge is.
What doctors study in universities and then master in hospitals is diagnostic and matching medication. So they know a lot about what to do when you have a disease but they know a little how to PREVENT it in the first place.
“Doctors have historically received almost no nutritional training, which limits their ability to effectively talk to patients about it. During four years of medical school, most students spend fewer than 20 hours on nutrition. That’s completely disproportionate to its health benefits for patients.”
Alec Pan 