Over the last decade, the world has really changed. Most things have been left to only professionals dealing with a particular subject and that includes our own health. Many people have left their health to doctors and medicine to the point of concluding that just living a healthy lifestyle could be a breach to their comfort.
There was a time in the past where walking many kilometers and eating healthy cooked food was a normal lifestyle but that has come to be replaced by other forms of transport and junk food respectively. The current lifestyle and commitments have come in such a manner that most people even visit doctors just to be told how much exercise they need to do in a day, or in other words, how far they need to walk to burn certain amounts of calories in the body. Funny enough, they pay a lot of money for these sorts of consultations. You go to many hospitals right now and youll find treadmills occupied by people not willing to go out for a walk yet also too lazy to cook so they just sit around and make delivery orders, notwithstanding, they are fully conscious of the implications of the choices they make. Many people are forced to live the unhealthy lifestyle by their careers and nature of the work they commit themselves to. You cant really blame them, even though, coming to think of it, they cant really miss some time to spare in an exercise for the sake of their health. So it turns out , living a healthy lifestyle has just become some sort of unbearable task with no evident prize for many.
We can therefore conclude that these days most people prefer to check in with a doctor when need be than to just live a healthy lifestyle since they find it too demanding.