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When family practitioner Dr. Steve Green tells patients to start eating well and exercising more, he's merely trying to give them a dose of his own medicine.
Green, who practices in Mira Mesa and is the chairman for the Family Practice Department of Sharp Rees-Steely Medical Group in San Diego, is married with three children.
Yet, he still manages to start his day at 5:45 a.m. with either a swim or a spinning class, an indoor cycling class.
Sometimes he returns to the gym after work to run on the treadmill or lift weights.
On the weekends, Green and his wife, who is also an avid cyclist, get up around 7 a.m. to get in a three-hour bike ride, then make family plans. His running shoes accompany him on business trips.
Green, 44, who lives in University City, is the first to admit that his daily routine was a major lifestyle change.
I used to exercise on and off," he said. "Three and a half years ago I weighed about 75 pounds more. One day, I was in my car to buy some 40-size-waist paints. ... I got to the curb of my driveway and realized I wasn't going to do this, so I turned around changed into my biking clothes and starting biking and basically haven't stopped since."
According to a recent survey done by New York-based BuzzBack Market Research, Green is among the rising number of baby boomers for whom physical and mental fitness is a primary concern.
In the survey, 512 boomers, half men and half women, identified weight loss maintaining and improving physical health and exercising regularly as their three most important activities on a list of 29 criteria.
Getting quality sleep, feeling safe, having more energy and a satisfying sex life , and managing stress ranked Nos. 4 through 8 on the list.
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