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  In yesterday's editorial we talked about how dramatic an effect a holiday regiment of poker and feasting can have on one's posterior, and subsequently their love life. Well this idea seems to have gotten an enthusiastic "hear hear!" from Annie Duke, who in a recent interview talked about the need for nutrition and exercise as an appropriate way to approach a profession where the most grueling physical test one faces is if their right cheek falls asleep before the flop when you are sitting in the big blind.



  Most doctors would agree that diet and exercise is a good idea for any poker player, but doctors don't look as good in a mini-skirt as Ms. Duke. This somehow seems to give her a little more credibility on the issue than somebody in a white lab coat and a degree that it took them a dozen years to earn.



  Even though Annie probably goes overboard with the calories and carbohydrates over the holidays just like the rest of us, she suggests that it would help one's poker game if they started engaging in daily cardiovascular exercise. She herself runs four to seven miles each morning as a way to stay in shape.



  On top of exercise, she has gone to drinking only water during a tournament, and when the urge to snack comes upon her like an evil version of Cookie Monster sitting on her shoulder, she munches on home made, chocolate free, trail mix.



  Obviously this will help anyone, not just poker players, stay healthy: anybody from office workers who sit in fabric covered boxes all day, to somebody who is addicted to hours of daytime television will benefit from these little lifestyle tweaks, but there is an immediate and long term benefit for poker players.



  In the short term those who are in better shape will be more alert as a tournament moves into its eighteenth hour. This means those who are better physically conditioned and nourished will be able to concentrate on their cards while their quickly tiring counterparts will be having hallucinations of Ginger from "Gilligan's Island" and holding discussions with long dead relatives.



  The long term advantage of changing some of your habits is that considering the fact that a lot of the female players are starting to look like Annie Duke, Erica Schoenberg, and Jennifer Leigh, your chances of not being laughed at when you ask one of these poker beauties out go way up.