Obama walks to try to lower cholesterol

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Poll results, congressional head counts and federal deficits aren’t the only numbers President Obama has to worry about. Now, he’s trying to walk off a marginally high cholesterol count.

Although Obama took the presidential motorcade to a speech Monday morning, he decided to walk back through Lafayette Park. A day earlier, his doctor recommended that he lower his cholesterol. The president told reporters he needed to “make sure that I’m walking off some of that cholesterol. That’s a year of campaigning right there.”

Obama had a physical exam Sunday morning, during which he learned that his total cholesterol and so-called bad, or LDL, cholesterol had both jumped into the borderline high range since his last reported exam in 2007.

-- Associated Press