*WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who delights in confounding healthexperts with his junk food cravings and disinclination to exercise,traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland Fridayfor his annual physical exam.*
It was not clear how many of the results would be made public or when, butlast year everything from the president’s cholesterol levels (high) toweight (too high at 239 pounds (108 kilograms) was released.
Trump’s then chief physician, Ronny Jackson, also held a press conferencein which he declared Trump to be in “excellent health.” Jackson, a navyrear admiral, has since run into trouble over alleged ethical misconductand a different team will assess 72-year-old Trump.
On the plus side, Trump doesn’t smoke and is a noted teetotaler. He sayshe’s never even had a beer.
Less good: the former real estate tycoon and reality TV performerunashamedly embraces the couch potato life.
Not for Trump the basketball sessions that Barack Obama sweated through inthe White House, or the bike rides of George W. Bush.
Trump loves the more sedate game of golf, but rides a cart between holesand has said that anything more strenuous is actually bad for your health.
“All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for kneereplacements, hip replacements —- they’re a disaster,” Trump told The NewYork Times in 2015.
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Trump has described his chief exercise as walking around the White Housecompound and standing up at public events.
The 45th president’s diet, reportedly involving legendary amounts of Cokeand red meat, also seems to defy most doctors’ orders.
In January, Trump hosted the strapping athletes of America’s championcollege football team, the Clemson Tigers, with a mountain of hamburgersand pizzas.
According to Jackson last year, Trump’s secret is genes.
“Incredibly good genes,” he said. “It’s just the way God made him.” -APP/AFP
