[Boatanchors] WA7LYO SK

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] WA7LYO SK


> The big killers are heart disease, lung cancer, and 
> colon/prostate cancer.
>
> IMO, the reason those who get sick and survive is they get 
> a scare and
> clean up their act.
>
> If you have a heart attack, you learn to watch saturated 
> fat and blood
> pressure.
>
> If you have lung cancer and survive, you stop smoking.
>
> If you get colon cancer, you stop avoiding colonoscopies.
>
> YMMV,
>
> -John

      I agree, being of that age (71). I just had 
angioplasty. I never smoked but my diet was probably not 
very good for a while. My cardiologist suggested the books 
by Dr. Dean Ornish and my GP agrees. You do not have to be a 
total vegetarian. If you smoke _quit_, its the absolute 
worst thing you can do to your body. Not everyone who smokes 
gets lung cancer but everyone _does_ get cardio-vascular 
damage. At least some of this is reversable if you stop 
smoking.
     Its easy enough to find out the rules for heart and 
other health. I was very lucky that a problem was found 
_before_ I had a heart attack. Talk to your doctor about 
getting a stress test and watch that cholesterol level!
     My doctor told me he thinks I will last another twenty 
years, since I am being careful now.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com