IT'S COMMON to see Dr. Casbert Morrison bounding up the stairwell of his 12-storey Kingston apartment building.
Weeknights, except Wednesdays when he swims, Dr. Morrison, goes up and down the stairs and around the perimeter of the building, hardly seeming to break a sweat.
It's therapy, reckons the 45-year-old dentist who has a practice in the Nuttall Medical Complex, Cross Roads, and in the Air Jamaica building on Harbour Street in downtown Kingston. "It sharpens the mind, helps with posture and delays, if not prevents, middle age crisis," he explains.
A fit body means keeping at bay diabetes, hypertension, heart problems and other diseases that become particularly troublesome at mid life.
GOOD PHYSIQUE
A sports enthusiast who played cricket, football and volleyball for Edwin Allen Comprehensive High School in Kingston, the dentist has always had a taut physique. After high school he kept on moving because "I realised that once you're physically fit, you're mentally fit. That (mind set) has taken me all the way through school, college and university."
Fitness regime: Morrison explains that he tries to do something every evening. Weeknights he does the stairs and walks around the building. Wednesdays and weekends he swims and once a week works out in his home gym to add muscle mass.
Diet: A pesco-vegetarian, since age 40, he avoids red meat and poultry, opting instead for fish - sardine, salmon and other deep sea fish. His diet is also made up of vegetables - mainly raw - nuts as well as fruit and vegetable juices. Cooking destroys the minerals and enzymes in food, he explains.
"I feel good with it. I'm not lethargic anymore," he adds, noting that he balances out his diet with natural supplements.
Inspiration: My wife (Elena, a doctor who practises in downtown Kingston) is my inspiration, he says. The two met while studying at university in Budapest, Hungary. She, a Bulgarian, he a Jamaican, volleyball was their common language at first.
These days, fitness is a language they continue to speak and share with their 19-year-old son and six-year-old daughter.
- Grace Cameron
