Frank Melidona, DO, Santa Barbara Care Center, The Villages Health®, discloses his personal story on weight loss. This video is just one of many that offers health and wellness tips at bit.ly/2j1jiqn
Dr. Melidona's family was 100% Italian and, while his mother was a great cook, he didn’t overeat or eat bad things. He was not a heavy child and they played outside all summer. He remained healthy through college, exercised quite a bit, and lived and walked everywhere on campus.
He married another Italian and the cooking habits didn’t change. As a physician, he started to gain weight because he exercised less, was taking care of lots of patients, and didn’t take time to take care of himself.
Over the years, he gained weight and became a diabetic at age 40. By the age of 50 he had an episode where he developed a significant illness, and he ended up in critical care on a ventilator because he was a diabetic who didn’t take care of himself. He spent a few five weeks on a ventilator and five months recuperating from a serious infection. After he emerged from that he decided he had to change his ways or he wouldn’t make it to age 55.
At the time of this interview he was 55 years old, 100 pounds lighter, and no longer a diabetic. He took it seriously and saw the light finally as a physician; taking care of everybody but himself. So, he decided to become an example, and now he teaches classes to try to help other people learn healthy habits that will also extend their lives a little bit.
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