Transcript: Stephen P. Bradley, M.D.
Improving an individual’s diet one change at a time
- [Lindberg:]
- Yeah, the problem with the nutritional plans is in whether you stick with them or not, of course.
- [Bradley:]
- That’s the whole game. And, you know, I always ask the first question “What have you done before? What worked for you before?” And we start from that basis, and then we try to say—we get as complete a food and nutritional diary as we can to say, all right, we’re not going to change everything, and that’s the problem with diets and why they don’t work, because they just change everything. And that’s why they fail. We try to change one or two things, and say at the end of the day change those things and if you can still be smiling at the end of the day, that’s a good point, and you’ll probably continue on with that change. If you’re doing it by force of willpower, it’s never going to work, and we try to work individually with each patient that way.