A Few Mds are Club Members

Some of my best friends are MDS and a few even workout. Personally, I think they all should. But they have objections to doing so just like the rest of the Normal Majority (such as most of my neighbors right here in the town house complex, whom I can see right out of my window.

The MDs who do workout have the same reasons for doing so as the non-MD Health Nuts (of which you may well be part). One often wonders if the greater part of the MD population feels the same to their seemingly trippy colleagues.

Why does the MD who shows up every morning, parking his Lexus in back of the club, do it? I asked him once and got an "I try to practice what I preach answer. I almost fell over. This means that he actually tells his patients to work out. This is incredible.

MDs, one would think, would all be all about healthy living. I and maybe even you would think that this would include a daily workout (along with low fat low carb eating and probably some really strong multi-vitamins.) Shouldn't that be what they all should think we all ought to be doing?

Most do not unless they are just out of grad school, possibly. The older more established class of professionals really believe that rest and relaxation, R&R, is the safest way for most to make to retirement in one piece. On the other hand, the younger ones know that this is probably the best way to get yourself on expensive medications and into complicated surgical procedures down the road.

Diabetes, heart trouble, stroke are all part and parcel of being overweight. To say that over weight causes them is probably asking for a host of objections, but its generally true that they all are associated with those pesky extra pounds which fall into the obesity category as soon as they exceed 40 pounds over what has been pretty much the standard weight (normal) for the last 50 years.

Regular workouts keep you fit, which first of all means at a normal weight. They do this, PERIOD. And they cause other good things as well. These include escalated circulation, oxygenation of the tissues (including the brain, thereby minimizing the potential of Alzheimer's) etc. Anyway, a few MDs believe this as well. I just wish all of them did, don't you?

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