Maintaining a healthy weight is often the best ‘preventative medicine’ for so many medical conditions including apnea, diabetes anf heart disease.  As our practice continues to focus on helping our patients overcome  obstacles to living a healthier lifesbtyle, we have asked our colleague and weight loss boot camp leader to post a guest blog on the danger of wearing scrubs! I  too have seen the detrimenetal affects of wearing loose clothing at work…Enjoy….   Dr. Lydia Sosenko

Loose fitting clothes may be dangerous to your health!!

 

Ok, this may sound crazy but being in the health profession my self as a dental hygienist, my theory is just that my theory!!

 I have never been a lover of scrubs. Yes, they are comfortable and very loose, which doesn’t help when it comes to watching your body get bigger. The looser the clothes the more you eat!!!!  The tighter the clothes the less you eat. So, when you work an 8 hour day in very loose clothes, you tend to not watch what you put in your mouth because your clothes still feel loose. Then you come home from work and go right into sweats or pajama’s which again are loose. This is helping America get fat!!

Being a personal trainer too, I have come across many health professionals that are struggling with their weight. I blame the loose clothing. How many of you come home and put on a pair of jeans or pants with a button and zipper? Try it, it may be an eye opener. Some of my clients don’t even know their size because they live in scrubs and sweats.

 In both of my professions I can be one of the professionals who get caught up in this trap, but I refuse to be one of them. I never wear a scrub top and my bottoms are a more fitted pant. I do wear a lab coat, but underneath you can see my figure. I still look like a health professional because I feel we should practice what we preach! If we a preaching good health we should look it.

 In conclusion, I am not telling you to get rid of your scrubs, because in many situations they are required to wear. All I am saying is that when you get home, try on a pair of pants with a button and zipper and be more conscious of what your size is and what you put in your mouth. Look your part as a healthy person, not an overweight person. Watch what you eat and live a healthier lifestyle.

 Thank you,

 Sharon Kline