With all the challenges that President Barack Obama has faced, there’s one particular health secret that’s helped him endure all the pressures of being one of the most powerful men in the world.
President Obama has admitted that quitting smoking might be one of the hardest challenges that he’s ever had to deal with. He used to light up about five times a day, but is now tobacco-free.
“I hate it,” Michelle Obama said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in 2007. “That’s why he doesn’t do it anymore. I’m proud to say, I outed him. I’m the one who outed him on the smoking.”
And it was a good thing that she did. The President is the healthiest he’s ever been.
“The president continues to focus on healthy lifestyle choices,” Jackson said in his report, dated Thursday and sent to press secretary Jay Carney. “He eats a healthy diet, exercises daily, remains tobacco free, and only drinks alcohol occasionally and in moderation.”
In addition to chewing nicotine gum, Obama takes Vitamin D to treat a mild deficiency — a common ailment — and…