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Article Excerpt
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...
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