"Dimitri" > wrote in message
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>
> "Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
> ...
>> sf wrote:
>>>
>>> Unless he's eating entire sticks behind my back.... I don't think he
>>> eats very much. It's one of those things he can point at and say
>>> "fat", so he decided to eliminate it.
>>
>>
>> If his health problems are genetic (from what you've said, I believe
>> they are), will cutting down on fats any further really improve his
>> health? Has his doctor told him to keep the fats in his diet down to a
>> certain amount?
>>
>>
>> I'm no doctor. I only know what I read in the news media so I'm sure
>> I've got a distorted view, but the way I understand it, making dietary
>> changes will help some people quite a bit in preventing heart attack.
>> That may even be most people.
>>
>>
>> For the others, for the ones who have never eaten a high fat diet, for
>> the ones who have always exercised, for the ones who have always
>> maintained a healthy low weight, for the people who do all that and
>> still have family members who have died young of heart attack, those
>> people are better off seeing their doctor regularly and taking the right
>> medicines than further tweaking their diet with butter substitutes.
>>
>>
>> For the record, I'm saying this because, while the news is good, I'm
>> still a little freaked by a friend's recent quadruple bypass surgery.
>> He's someone who has never been overweight and has seemed to eat right.
>> He'd been on heart medication, gotten stents put in 6 months ago, went
>> into the hospital for more stents, but gotten tests results showing that
>> he needed surgery right away. Even while in the hospital, his chest
>> pains and tests worried the doctors enough that they gave him emergency
>> surgery. They pushed it forward a few days. They didn't want to wait.
>>
>>
>> He's fine. He's at home and recovering and telecommuting and saving the
>> day at work (computer programming). I'm relieved and rejoicing but still
>> freaked that he was ever in this situation in the first place. The man
>> isn't yet 60 years old! Then I learned about his family history-- both
>> parents and several aunts and uncles have all died young of heart
>> disease.
>>
>>
>> --Lia
>
>
> When I was at UCLA a while back the head of cardiology told me the sad
> fact is without an angiogram there is simply no way to tell how much
> blockage is present. If you look at the case of Tim Russert its a classic
> example of a "Widow Maker"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_maker
>
> No symptoms then by the time you hit the floor you're gone.
>
> I also believe one can do everything to put the odds in your favor from
> the French Paradox to the Mediterranean diet but I think heredity plays a
> much stronger role than we can imagine.
>
>

We don't get out of this craphouse alive anyway.


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