To Do List (diet cardiac heart cancer exercise)
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By Sandy Szwarc 08/06/2003
What separates those of us who are the healthiest from those who aren't
is not what we look like, how much we weigh or what our measurements
are. It's what we do.
Svelte people aren't necessarily healthy just because they match how we
think healthy people should look; likewise, fat people aren't
necessarily unhealthy just because they don't.
Lifestyle choices
Remember that early study that found lifestyle factors predictive of
early mortality? Well, there have been hundreds like it, such as the
10-year SENECA Study published last year in the American Journal of
Epidemiology, that have consistently shown the same things -- three
major lifestyle factors determine a healthy life:
· Smoking
· Quality of diet
· Physical activity
"All the evidence suggests that as far as one's health is concerned,
lifestyle is far more important than body weight," Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D.,
associate professor of exercise physiology at the University of Virginia
and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), said.
"This goes for longevity as well."
That point was illustrated in the 1997 DASH clinical trial published in
the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The trial proved high blood
pressure could be effectively lowered by simple changes in the diet,
without losing weight. Just eating more fruits and vegetables and
low-fat dairy products worked comparably to medicines, but without the
side effects.
It's hard to find a healthful reason to smoke. Smoking doubles our risk
of a heart attack and puts us at two to four times greater risk for
sudden cardiac death as people who don't smoke. The most renowned and
comprehensive study on cancer causes, published in 1982 in the Journal
of the National Cancer Institute by epidemiologists Sirs Richard Doll,
M.D., D.Sc., D.M., and Richard Peto, M.D., F.R.S., at Oxford University,
found tobacco causes about one-third of U.S. cancers; a following third
by a poor diet.
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Jean C
"The supreme irony of life is hardly anyone ever
gets out of it alive" Robert A Heinlein
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