OFFICIAL Make America Healthy Again Game Thread - Featuring Dr Anthony Chaffee
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Once upon a time, the docs didn't sweat you too bad on BP if you were below 140/90. Nowadays, you get sweated if you're over 120/80. I've always been in higher range of "normal"…usually like 129 over 83 type stuff. My cholesterol is ok, but no great (something I get from my mom). But my BMI is good and my VO2 max is elite for late 40s guy. I have a YUGE fucking motor.
So my PCP has this cool tool where they input all of your numbers from a blood work and physical to calculate risk of heart disease or stroke in the next 10 years. For a guy at my age, anything below a 5% risk factor in the next 10 years is good. My number was 4%. My doc said if we put you on BP pill to reduce the topline number by 10pts, the risk % only drops to 3% so it's just not worth it.
He said the lowest hanging fruit for me would be to get the number of servings of alcohol down a lot and that would likely drop the BP by 10 pts. It's hard; it's a process cause I want bourbon, I want scotch and I want beer.
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You have an elite VO2 max. You're good, pal.
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It's interesting to walk about cities like London or NYC where the average bloke still has to walk a few miles today to get around town even when riding the Tube or Subway. You just don't see nearly as much obesity.
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I'm noticing a lot of FAT guys on jobsites these days. Don't remember that many before
Shut down the man lifts and make fatty climb the stairs
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I noticed during the great White Wakanda (free) roofing boom of 2022- 23, there were no fatties in the trade.
Doesn't matter if they were @creepycoug s or the native, good old boys.
Roofing seems like a hard, physically demanding gig.
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I checked out the Tug thread. I mean, ok. I do believe the recommendations of low-fat at the expense of healthy fats are wrong and I have plenty of data to support it, but still, everything in moderation.
If you move your body sufficiently and eat actual food (without eating too much) you'll be ok. You can have some junk, but it is really an everything in moderation deal. And I would rather spend my bad calories on Vodka just to torment Yella.
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I still gotta watch it. Crap family history and crap disease to deal with, but my numbers say I'm good.
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McDonald's took all the heat because they are so big so the little guys under the radar can still give you greased up fries
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Dicks fries or GTFO
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