Doctors Should Follow Their Own Fitness and Nutrition Advice

In a limited UK survey, only 21 percent of the doctors surveyed got a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise five days a week. Doctors cite a lack of time, motivation and resources as excuses for not following the advice they dispense to patients. That's Fit asked readers what they thought -- does the physical fitness of a doctor matter?

• 52.2 percent of you feel that doctors should practice what they preach.
• 23.9 percent of you feel that a doctor's lifestyle doesn't change what they know, and their knowledge is more important when practicing medicine. One reader commented that doctors who have struggled with weight themselves tend to be more helpful and empathic with patients.
  
• 23.9 percent feel that it depends on what kind of doctors they are and what type of advice they're dispensing.