Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Shocked After Reading About A Doctor Advising People Over 45 To Avoid Shoveling Snow: “We’re Too Old To Shovel Our Snow?”

Oh, the weather outside is frightful… and so was a snow shoveling recommendation that Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos learned on Wednesday’s Live with Kelly and Mark.

Consuelos read from a USA Today article that tackled the question of “how old is too old to shovel snow.”

“You know it’s dangerous, right,” he said. “The snow is heavy. It’s very cardiovascular work-out.”

While both Ripa and Consuelos felt that shoveling snow can be a good work-out, Consuelos read that “adults 65 and older should be more wary of snow shoveling,” as should “individuals with risk factors such as heart disease, using tobacco, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol.”

However, another opinion cited in the article was from Dr. Barry Franklin, who previously “said that anyone over the age of 45” should avoid shoveling snow. According to USA Today, the recommendation supported by a study that found that “about 85% of adults over the age of 50 already experience atherosclerosis, which can lead to coronary artery disease.”

Ripa, 55, and Consuelos, 54, immediately looked at each other in surprise.

“Oh my gosh,” Ripa teased. “We’re too old to shovel our snow?”

Consuelos echoed, “We’re too old to shovel our snow.”

Ripa added, “We always shovel our snow!”

Though Consuelos said the snow they get “is like a block about the size of four of these desks,” the two acknowledged that “sometimes it gets very wet and messy out there.” Ultimately, Consuelos proposed “pay[ing] the little, young whippersnappers in your neighborhood” to do the job, but Ripa teased that may not be the case for them where they live on the Upper East Side.

“We are the young whippersnappers in our neighborhood,” she quipped. “Our neighborhood is a significantly older than us neighborhood. We were the oldest people in our neighborhood, and then we moved uptown and we became the youngest people in our neighborhood.”

Consuelos added, “So young, that I realized all the guys on my street would be wearing Band-Aids on their head. And I realized they’re on so many blood thinners that a little nick will just start bleeding. It’s very dangerous. I’m like, they must be hitting their heads. Why are they bleeding so much?”

He also recalled an instance when he and Ripa had two dogs of him walking the dog as “two nice older ladies” were walking by.

“They said, ‘He must be the dog walker,’” he continued. “And I said, ‘I am the dog walker.’ It’s nice being the youngest people in our neighborhood.”

Ripa agreed, “I know, because for so long we were the oldest… We were in our 30s. But when you live in boogie-down SoHo, it’s like anybody over the age of 20 is the crypt keeper.”

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