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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (180729)4/12/2005 2:54:55 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
OT- Heart Disease

Lifestyle changes definitely reduce the propensity for heart disease, but for some individuals that is not enough.

That tragic fact was brought home to me last year. A friend was skinny, a fitness fanatic and a non-smoker. He was a avid mountaineer and marathon runner, and would go on 15 mile mountain hikes every weekend. He was on a low cholestrol diet as well.Unfortunately he died suddenly during a mountain hiking expedition.This first heart attack was his last. I found out that he had a high cholestrol level (250), and he was avoiding medication believing that his lifestyle was adequate protection against heart disease.

Heart Disease has several risk factors. Diet and lifestyle are only a few of the risk factors. Others include smoking,hypertension, diabetes, high cholestrol, being a male over 50, or a female over 60. And then there are unknown factors which get lumped under the genetic factor. You have to consciosly try to attack all the risk factors under your control by lifestyle modification and taking proper medication. You cannot wait for symptoms of heart disease to take action. Too many people show no symptoms and are then felled by the first heart attack.
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