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To: mistermj who wrote (1885)	11/4/2008 8:38:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 39304

significant "extra" muscle also represents an extra risk long term. It has to be maintained, with high effort. I had a 60-year-old dance partner die of a stroke four years ago. Wiry type who was training for a Honolulu Marathon. I just found out that she had Atrial Fibrillation. And was not taking Warfarin. Based on what I know now, I have no doubt that the running she was doing to get ready for the Marathon dislodged a blood clot from her heart that went to her brain and killed her. I found this out from a very good friend of hers, another dance partner, during a discussion of HER Atrial Fibrillation, for which she also is not taking anything. Needless to say, I was all over her. Hopefully, she will be on Warfarin before the week is out.

To: mistermj who wrote (1885)	11/4/2008 9:22:03 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 39304

mrmj, Thats a good point...but significant "extra" muscle also represents an extra risk long term. It has to be maintained, with high effort. Ex NFL athletes come to mind. It doesn't seem to do them much good at all in the long run. Where most ex-athletes go wrong is when they go from intensive training, with high calorie expenditure to no training, but without adjusting their diet. The muscle is not easy to maintain without constant training - so muscles shrink. Muscle mass adds to metabolism, loss of muscle lowers natural metabolism, which is a second component of lowered calorie expenditure... Joe