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Originally posted by Fugee
Sebby and the other doctor-phobics: Get in for annual checkups!!! This is just stupid behavior -- it's once a fricken' year, how bad can that be? A good diet and exercise doesn't mean you couldn't have dangerously high cholesteral -- sometimes it is a genetic thing that can't be controlled other than with meds. Don't be all macho and invincible acting -- worse things could happen than you suddenly dropping dead. You could end up chronically, but not fatally, ill and not be able to do all the things you want when you could have avoided it with a little preventative medical care.
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1. I have almost zero cholestrol and I eat a low fat diet.
2. No one in my family as far back as anyone can trace has ever had a heart problem or high cholestrol.
3. I hit the gym 6X a week and am at the perfect healthy weight for my height.
4. Everyone in my family dies of cancer around 80. If I had any brains I'd try to eat as much fat as I could and smoke butts to get a heart attack before then so I don't have to endure the hellish demise from cancer, but that probably won't work... my grandfather smoked for 50 years and had low blood pressure at the time he died - at 89 - of old age.
5. My father lives on a diet not unlike Jerry Garcia's. He has a physical each year for a life insurance policy. Each time they tell him he has low cholestrol and is in fine cardiac health. He's smoked cigars for 20 years and other than golf engages in zero physical activities.
S(I do believe I'll be ok, barring getting hit by a bus)D
