Get Up And Do Something: Doctors need to change their eating habits, too

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Doctors need to change their eating habits, too Sep 16th 2012, 11:34 Doctors are supposed to help patients eat healthfully — but they're not exactly dietary angels themselves. Skipping from meeting (snacks provided) to conference (catered, with jumbo cookies) to lunch at the hospital cafeteria (sugary soda on the side), many fall into the same bad habits the rest of us do, consuming too many calories, gaining too much weight, and eating all the wrong foods. At least one group of researchers thinks it's time for this to change. Writing in the journal JAMA on Tuesday (subscription required), researchers from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, the Rand Corp. and UCLA called on physicians to forgo the pizza and burgers and start demanding more healthful fare at work.

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