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THE DAILY ASTORIAN TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016
More doctors are prescribing
exercise over medication
By RODRIQUE NGOWI
Associated Press
BOSTON — When Dr.
Michelle Johnson scribbles
out prescriptions, the next
stop for many of her patients
is the gym, not the pharmacy.
Doctors treating chronic
health problems increasingly
are prescribing exercise for
their patients — and encour-
aging them to think of phys-
ical activity as their new
medication.
In one such program run
by a health center in Boston’s
Roxbury neighborhood, pri-
mary care physicians, inter-
nists and psychologists pre-
scribe access to a gym for
$10 a month, including free
child care, classes and kids
programs. Providing afford-
able gym access for patients
ensures compliance, said
Gibbs Saunders of Health-
works Community Fitness,
a nonprofit gym in Dorches-
ter that has partnered with
several health care provid-
ers to help low-income res-
idents fill their exercise
prescriptions.
Executives at the Whit-
tier Street Health Center say
low-cost access to a gym is
important, since many resi-
dents’ income is low and 70
percent of those they treat
suffer from chronic prob-
lems such as obesity, high
blood pressure, diabetes and
depression.
Life expectancy in Rox-
bury is 59 years — well
below the national average of
78.8 years.
“Exercise is not a new
medicine. It’s really an old
medicine,” said Johnson,
who prescribes exercise to
patients at the Roxbury-based
health center. “But you know,
I think we’re now coming to
the point of understanding
how important it is.”
Monisha Long, who is
morbidly obese and suffers
from hypertension, got a doc-
tor’s prescription for exercise
and says she’s gotten visi-
ble and dramatic results after
more than two years of regu-
lar workouts.
“I lost well over 150
pounds, and I’ve been keep-
ing it off for the past cou-
ple of years,” she said after
working out on an elliptical
machine at Healthworks.
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
Photos by Rodrique Ngowi/AP Photo
Stephanie Dennis works on a treadmill at the nonprofit gym run by Healthworks Com-
munity Fitness in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Doctors treating chronic health
problems increasingly are prescribing exercise instead of medicines for their patients.
At one health center in Boston, primary care physicians, internists and psychologists
prescribe access to a gym for $10 a month.
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“I’m more energized,” she
said. “As far as my energy, I
feel like I’m stronger. I feel
like I’m less tired. I feel like I
can do almost anything now.”
People who are physically
active tend to live longer and
are at lower risk of heart dis-
ease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes,
depression and some cancers,
according to the U.S. Centers
for Disease and Control and
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one in four American adults
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Phillips said exercise is “like
taking a little bit of Prozac —
an antidepressant — and a lit-
tle bit of Ritalin, which is a
stimulant.”
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In jailhouse
recording,
Bundy defends
Oregon sheriff
Physician Dr. Edward Phillips pedals on a stationary bike
that’s integrated into his office desk in Boston. Phillips
said exercise is “like taking a little bit of Prozac, an anti-
depressant, and a little bit of Ritalin, which is a stimulant.”
Gibbs Saunders, right, managing director of the nonprofit
Healthworks Community Fitness, exercises with clients at
their gym in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.
PORTLAND — Ammon
Bundy, the jailed leader
from the armed takeover of
an Oregon wildlife refuge,
has come to the defense
of a sheriff who is being
investigated by the state.
The state agency that
licenses police officers is
looking into complaints
that Grant County Sher-
iff Glenn Palmer twice met
with occupiers who trav-
eled to visit him during the
41-day standoff that ended
Feb. 11. If Palmer is found
to have violated standards,
he could lose his police
certification.
The occupiers and their
defense attorneys have
portrayed the standoff as a
peaceful protest in which
the group was exercising
its right to free speech.
Ammon Bundy said in
a recording posted Sun-
day on the Bundy Ranch
Facebook page that Palmer
was the only Oregon sher-
iff who didn’t get caught
in the “political deception”
that the people of Burns
were in danger during the
occupation.
“Sheriff Palmer went to
the source and found out
the truth,” Bundy said. “He
found out that we at the
refuge stood for the Con-
stitution,” and the protest-
ers “love this country and
would not hurt another
person.”
The Department of Pub-
lic Safety Standards and
Training received nine
complaints about Palmer,
sheriff since 2000 of the
politically
conservative
county that neighbors the
Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge.
One was filed by Valerie
Luttrell, manager of emer-
gency
communications
for the city of John Day.
She said federal and state
authorities viewed Palmer
as a security leak, and
therefore kept local offi-
cials out of the loop during
the Jan. 26 traffic stop that
LISTINGS
Glenn
Palmer
led to the arrests of the
standoff’s leaders and the
shooting death of occupier
Robert “LaVoy” Finicum.
The group was on
its way to a community
meeting with supporters
in Grant County, which
Palmer attended. In a video
from the traffic stop, Fini-
cum yells to police: “Just
shoot me. I’m going to
meet the sheriff. The sher-
iff is waiting for us.”
Luttrell wrote that
the 911 dispatch center
received many calls during
the standoff from people
praising Palmer for sup-
porting the occupiers and
their demand that the gov-
ernment free two ranch-
ers imprisoned for start-
ing fires. The group also
wanted public lands relin-
quished to local control.
Palmer belongs to the
Constitutional
Sheriffs
and Peace Officers Asso-
ciation, which describes
itself as the “last line of
defense standing between
the overreaching federal
government and your Con-
stitutionally guaranteed
rights.”
He did not immediately
return a phone message
Monday. He has previously
declined to speak about the
investigation.
Bundy was one of 26
people arrested in con-
nection with the occupa-
tion. All are charged with
conspiracy, and some
are accused of additional
crimes.
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