{"id":1052989,"date":"2010-11-07T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/physicians-as-a-group-are-leaner-fitter-and-live-longer-than-average-americans\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:21","slug":"physicians-as-a-group-are-leaner-fitter-and-live-longer-than-average-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/physicians-as-a-group-are-leaner-fitter-and-live-longer-than-average-americans.php","title":{"rendered":"Physicians as a group are leaner, fitter and live longer than average Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2608\/483\/1600\/Sport.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6a6fa_Sport.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><div>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704113504575264364125574500.html\">WSJ<\/a>:<\/div><div><\/div><p>Physicians as a group are leaner, fitter and live longer than average Americans. Male physicians keep their cholesterol and blood pressure lower.<\/p><p>However, doctors are less likely to have their own primary care physician&mdash;and more apt to abuse prescription drugs.<\/p><p><b>Lifestyle habits<\/b><\/p><p><b>Exercise<\/b>: Many physicians say they \"embed\" it into their lives, making it a non-negotiable part of their daily routine, often early in the morning before demands pile on. One doctor says he gets up at 4:45 a.m. virtually every morning to train for marathons he runs. \"But by 8:30 at night, I have the IQ of a zucchini,\" he says.<\/p><p><b>Smoking<\/b>: Only 2% to 4% of physicians smoke cigarettes, compared to roughly 24% of the U.S. population.<\/p><p><b>Stress<\/b>: For all their good habits, it's no secret that doctors are under enormous pressure.<\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704113504575264364125574500.html\">What Patients Can Learn from the Ways Physicians Take Care of Themselves<\/a>. WSJ.<\/p><div>Image source: OpenClipart.org, public domain.<\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Male physicians keep their cholesterol and blood pressure lower.However, doctors are less likely to have their own primary care physician&mdash;and more apt to abuse prescription &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/physicians-as-a-group-are-leaner-fitter-and-live-longer-than-average-americans.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}