5 Reasons Trump Is a Health Calamity Waiting to Happen

The following article by Kelli Halloway was posted on the AlterNet website July 19 2017:

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No reasonable person (which automatically rules out his base) sees Donald Trump as a paragon of good health. The oldest person to enter the presidency, Trump maintains a lifestyle conspicuously absent of practices that might be labeled “health minded.” While he famously doesn’t drink coffee, smoke cigarettes or imbibe alcohol, Trump also doesn’t buy into all this whiny liberal garbage about physical fitness. As he’s repeatedly declared, totally without irony or self-awareness, he has magic genes that all but guarantee him a life that will only end when he wants it to.

As USA Today notes, this attitude “resonates in his policies on public health.” It’s why—in combination with a lusty hatred for Barack Obama—he has “relaxed nutritional standards on school lunches and he has yet to name any members of the president’s fitness council.” It’s what you get when you elect a president who brags about not eating pizza crust as if that’s equivalent to completing an Ironman without training.

Sure, to some extent, it’s all luck of the draw. Tomorrow is never promised, unless like Dick Cheney your heart has been replaced with a robot that runs on pure, unfiltered evil. But as physician Michael Roizen told USA Today, Trump certainly seems like someone who could blow any day. “From a medical standpoint,” Roizen said, “you would worry about that.” Continue reading “5 Reasons Trump Is a Health Calamity Waiting to Happen”