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By Rachael Rettner May 14 at 10:00 AM
President Trump reportedly eschews exercise because he believes it drains the bodys finite energy resources, but experts say this argument is flawed because the human body actually becomes stronger with exercise.
Trumps views on exercise were mentioned in a New Yorker article this month and in Trump Revealed, The Washington Posts 2016 biography of the president, which noted that Trump mostly gave up athletics after college because he believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted.
Exercise does deplete stores of glucose, glycogen and fats from the bodys tissues, but these fuels are restored when a person eats, said Michael Jonesco, a sports medicine and orthopedics specialist at Ohio State Universitys Wexner Medical Center.
Rather than thinking of energy stores as a battery, a better analogy would be like the fire that you continue to fuel with more coal or wood, Jonesco said. You need to continue to add fuel, or your flame will die. This is true whether you exercise or not. .?.?. Simply by existing, we are burning energy.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-thinks-that-exercising-too-much-uses-up-the-bodys-finite-energy/2017/05/12/bb0b9bda-365d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html
malaise
(269,004 posts)idiot - he looks like he thinks
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I think you're on to something! I'm sure that because you are more advanced than the rest of us it works perfectly for you and your exquisite physique. This kind of intuitive thinking means great things for your future and those who think like you do. It should be good for us in the end as well.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Takes a lot of work and dedication to maintain that manly physique.
Zoonart
(11,866 posts)puriy of essence.
theaocp
(4,237 posts)apply that "logic" to his brain and realize he used up its resources a long fucking time ago.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,998 posts)So feel free to go ahead and stop.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Here's hoping it expands to the point that it consumes him entirely.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)Why not treat yourself to some chips or ice cream. Just press the red button. Oh, and skip the Diet Coke. Go for the full sugar one.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,695 posts)and restore his energy with lots of fried chicken, beautiful chocolate cake and double scoops of ice cream. We wouldn't want him to wear himself out!
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)if he didn't exercise?
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moondust
(19,981 posts)3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)...of fuel stored up.
Stallion
(6,474 posts)eat a third scoop of ice cream-YOU deserve it
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Probably believes in the ubermensch
and thinks he's one too.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)tanyev
(42,559 posts)trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Keep doing what you're doing.