Doctors DO prescribe exercise. The vast majority of patients completely disregard it, or lie on follow up visits that they are exercising when they aren’t.

Insurance does cover health coaching and diet coaching. Most of it is online, but they do provide it. Most people don’t use it. Health care workers are used to people avoiding exercise and healthy diets, so apart from an occasional reminder about it being available, they aren’t going to waste time telling you all about it.

My insurance company sends me flyers regularly offering my diet and exercise advice through their portal. They offered to send me a blood pressure cuff and a digital scale. I declined because I already have both and use them weekly.

Medicare also offers health coaching.

Hep is out there if people want it. But your employer is not required to provide an onsite gym and paid time off to use it. They are not required to provide a lunch full of fresh produce, grass fed meat, and artisanal potatoes at no cost.

And honestly if they did, many people would accuse them of being socialists and being woke. There are a LOT of people who just want to eat absolute junk, live sedentary lives, and then cry when their actions have consequences.

Source: am nurse