Are obese physicians effective at providing healthy lifestyle counseling?

摘要

The three closest restaurants to my practice site are fast-food restaurants. A colleague and I were frustrated because we counsel our patients on their blood pressure and cholesterol, and they leave the clinic and drive into the adjacent drive-fhroughs. Then I realized we went to McDonald's twice that day. What if this is more than modeling a bad habit? How successful can a physician be when counseling patients about ways to lose weight if the physician does not have a healthy lifestyle? If the physician is obese, how can he or she approach the subject of obesity with patients?