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am i unhealthy?

i don't feel like i'm unhealthy, but my doctors seem to think i am, which i don't understand.

okay, so here i go.

i'm 5'5" and weight 155 lbs, but I think a lot of its muscle

i swim everyday for 2-3 hours (weekends included) for my swim team and play tennis 2-3 times a week (usually about 5 hours) and play tournaments competitively during the swimming off season.

i eat very healthy... i usually have some junk food, but not in excess. i don't drink soda or anything... my usual meals are:

breakfast-cereal or 1/2 bagel

lunch-peanut butter sandwich, crackers, fruit

snack(before and after swimming)-chewy bars (one each time)

dinner-a normal dinner, like chili or spaghetti, with milk

desert-one scoop ice cream, a cookie, something along those lines.

i also drink tons of water... like 5-10 water bottles a day.

Update:

my family has a history of diabetes and heart disease

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  • 1 decade ago
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    from what i can see, your height is excellently proportionate to your weight. your diet and exercise seems excellent. the only reason i can see why your doctor thinks your unhealthy may be due to your genetics. ask your family members if there is a history of heart problems or anything else. it just may be your genetics thats whats making the doctor think your unhealthy.

  • 1 decade ago

    Wow. I'm not sure of the exact calorie or nutrient content of what you typically eat in a day, but from what I can tell you eat an excellent diet.

    Muscle weighs a lot more than fat, as I'm sure you know, so I wouldn't listen to the doctor. If you eat well (and it sure sounds like you do!) and get that amount of exercise, you're in great shape.

    I'm 5'1" and when I weighed 109 pounds, my doctor told me she was concerned and wanted me back at 102 pounds. Ironically, I was seeing her for the residual effects of an eating disorder.

    Doctors aren't always right.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Your great! Your doctor is probably just judging by your weight without even realizing that there's quite a bit of muscle. Does s/he know your daily routines? If he did he would know you are in great shape! You have an excellent exercise routine and your diet is just fine! Ignore him or her! Keep up the great work and have a wonderful new year! :)

  • 5 years ago

    nicely i'm no longer a physician in any respect yet i comprehend thats its particularly undesirable for you. i got here across this on the information superhighway saying what occurs once you drink coke. desire it facilitates you! :) have you ever puzzled why Coke comes with a grin? It’s as a results of fact it gets you intense. They took the cocaine out purely approximately one hundred years in the past. you understand why? It exchange into redundant. * interior the 1st 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your gadget. (a hundred% of your cautioned on a daily basis intake.) You don’t at present day vomit from the overpowering sweetness as a results of fact phosphoric acid cuts the flavour allowing you to maintain it down. * 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, inflicting an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by utilizing turning any sugar it could get its palms on into fat. (There’s an mind-blowing style of that at this actual 2nd) * 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is done. Your scholars dilate, your blood rigidity rises, as a reaction your livers dumps greater sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors on your innovations at the instant are blocked scuffling with drowsiness. * 40 5 minutes: Your physique united statesyour dopamine manufacturing stimulating the exhilaration centers of your innovations. it is bodily the comparable way heroin works, by utilizing the way. * >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc on your decrease gut, offering a further improve in metabolism. it is compounded by utilizing intense doses of sugar and synthetic sweeteners additionally increasing the urinary excretion of calcium. * >60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic residences come into play. (It makes you are going to be able to desire to pee.) that's now assured which you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that exchange into headed on your bones to boot as sodium, electrolyte and water. * >60 minutes: as a results of fact the rave interior you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. you are going to be able to alter into irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve additionally now, actually, pissed away all the water that exchange into interior the Coke. yet no longer in the previous infusing it with helpful food your physique might have used for issues like inspite of the flexibility to hydrate your gadget or build reliable bones and teeth. this might all be observed by utilizing a caffeine crash contained in here couple of hours. (as low as 2 in case you’re a smoker.) yet, whats up, have yet another Coke, it’ll make you experience greater suitable.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You sound healthy and normal to me, but only your doctor can really tell you if your healthy

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    unhealthy isn't always referring to physical health.

  • 1 decade ago

    ur doc is an idoiot dont listen to him ur doing just right if ur happy with urself

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