Some 75% of all Americans use their doctors as health counselors, seeking advice on diet and other lifestyle choices that affect health -- but doctors underestimate their role in this capacity and don't always suggest lifestyle changes that might control high cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity and other health problems, according to a report in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM). Although not covered in the report, it is my belief that, although very well trained in the drug and other interventions that can control lifestyle diseases like cardiovascular illness, obesity and others, doctors do not have training in the food-related and other lifestyle choices that cure and prevent such diseases. This is the sickness that afflicts our healthcare system. Our choices make us sick, and our medical system offers drugs instead of help with our choices.