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Article: Are the odds stacked against you? (lowering heart disease risk by controlling one's lifestyle)(includes score sheet on heart disease risk factors) (Heart Disease: Am I at Risk?)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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Friday, July 20, 1984, in northern Vermont. A passing motorcyclist discovered a man lying dead beside the road. He was clad only in shorts and running shoes. The man was Jim Fixx, author of The Complete Book of Running.
This amazingly successful book had topped the best-seller lists for nearly two years, helping to accelerate the running boom of the late 1970s. Jim Fixx had become one of the leading spokespersons on the health benefits of running. Now he lay dead--with his running shoes on. And this is why so many of us were disturbed--Jim Fixx died of cardiac arrest while pounding the pavement for the fitness and health he advocated for all.
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