9 Foods Doctors Eat Every Day (And Never Tell Patients About)

The Gap Between Prescriptions and Practice

There is often a gap between what doctors tell patients and what doctors actually do. Partly this is time — a 10-minute appointment is not sufficient for a nutrition lecture. Partly it is habit — dietary advice is not as straightforward to prescribe as medication.




And partly it is a professional assumption that patients will not follow nuanced dietary guidance anyway. But if you shadow physicians who have exceptional long-term health outcomes, a pattern emerges in what they personally eat.