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Lifelong Friends
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After college and medical
school these two great friends returned to Rutland where Art became the city’s first full-time pediatrician and Bill the first specialist in internal medicine. During their long professional careers, recreation took a back seat to family and to working 70 hours a week. As Art said, “We worked our butt’s off!” Art and Bill started structured exercise five years ago when tennis became more difficult and they were feeling a loss of strength and energy. The exercise has made a big difference and VS&F has become an important part of their weekly routine. Since these two respected professionals have been advising Rutlanders for almost 50 years, I asked what exercise advice they might want to offer. “The old platitude,” said Art, “regular exercise and diet. It’s not that complicated.” “Just stay active,” Bill added. “The usual stuff. The thing is, you have to do it.” As we were finishing our interview, Melissa Godfrey-Crossman, our fitness director stopped to say hello to Art and Bill. “Look!” she said. “My favorite people.” Club member, Sandy Cohen, also stopping to say hello, added, “Everybody’s favorite people!” Thanks, Art and Bill, for being such a wonderful part of Rutland’s history and a part of VS&F, too.  |
US Senate Bill Hopes to Reduce Obesity With the backing of health and fitness groups including the American Heart Association, three US Senators have introduced a bill designed to reduce the nation’s waistline. Senators Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. introduced the “Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act,” with goals of fostering better information, improved nutrition and greater opportunities for physical activity. Calling obesity the second most preventable cause of death after tobacco use, the bill authorizes $250 million to combat what has been called a “national epidemic,” contributing to more than 300,000 deaths a year. At VS&F, we are glad to see this call for better education about the critical importance of regular exercise, but the government can only do so much. As adults we are responsible for our own healthy lifestyles and for fostering good nutrition and healthy exercise in our children. So let’s get going ... toward more energy, better health and a better quality of life! |
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| Want to Avoid a Winter Cold? Exercise Helps, Study Says Lead author, Dr. Charles Matthews, and his colleagues interviewed 547 healthy adults regularly for one year and found, as reported in the August issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, that people who were the most active had 25% fewer colds than those who were the least active.
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Club Member
Melissa Felkl is
Mrs. Vermont “Never give up on your life and your dreams ... when you are married and have family goals it doesn’t mean you can’t have personal goals, too.”
These were the words of Melissa Melissa, age 31, is a wife, a mother, and a full-time paralegal. She also works part-time as a model and a teacher of modeling. She has been a member of VS&F since March 2001, and began to prepare for the Mrs. America Pageant several months later. She exercises at VS&F two to three times a week, usually hurrying in and out during her lunch hour. Melissa competed once in the Miss Vermont Teen Pageant and once for Miss Vermont. “Looking back,” she said, “I didn’t feel beautiful enough ... now I’ve grown so much inside, I want to try again.” Good luck, Melissa! |
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