Donald Trump released lab results Thursday from a recent medical examination, with his personal physician stating that the Republican presidential candidate “is in excellent physical health”.
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Trump is listed as 6 feet, 3 inches tall and weighing 236 pounds, which makes him overweight for his height.
Based on his body mass index (BMI), Trump is overweight.
“He’s got more energy than any human being alive”.
Perhaps taking a swipe at opponent Hillary Clinton’s recent bout with pneumonia, Trump also told Oz in the show that was taped Wednesday, “I think when you’re running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy”. He told Oz he’s “always been a little bit this way”, and that he wants to lose weight but it’s tough because of the way he lives. “But the one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds, would be good”.
Trump and Clinton, who turns 69 next month, are among the oldest presidential candidates in American history. Weight loss relies largely on a person’s diet. Trump said he tells his kids, “No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes”. Because I’ve been a good golfer over the years. “I am up there using a lot of motion”, he said. Plus, the halls in which he holds his rally speeches “are like saunas, and I guess that’s a form of exercise”.
Federal health guidelines urge people over age 65 who have no health conditions that would limit exercise to get about 2½ hours a week of moderate activity, such as brisk walking, and to do some muscle-strengthening activities at least two days a week. Clinton is set to return to the campaign trail today after a three-day absence, and her physician wrote that she is “recovering well with antibiotics and rest”. The CDC says people may need to do more than that amount each week to maintain their weight. As men age, their levels of testosterone typically decline.
“Dr. Oz to Trump: ‘Your testosterone is 441, which is actually good.’ Laughter & applause”.
When Dr. Oz tried to steer the conversation to Trump’s stress levels and temperament, Trump went off on a tangent talking about the “dishonest” media.
But Trump’s well-timed appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show”, beloved by local stations for its “tremendous multiplatform sales and marketing opportunities”, blew the Clinton campaign’s continuing mop-up job out of the water with the kind of sheer spectacle Trump builds professionally.
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He noted that Trump had been hospitalized only once, for an appendectomy when he was 11 years old, and that his parents lived into their late 80s and 90s.
