Diet and Heart attack
Most of us get coronary artery
disease (blockage) because we consume too much fat, cholesterol and calories.
The first road to health is the maintenance of ideal or near ideal body weight.
The more we weight, the sooner we die. All of us can identify the exception,
such as Sir Winston Churchill, but he was an exception. Physicians need to set
the example here. And losing weight is so difficult! A pound of body fat
contains approximately 3500 calories. To lose 1 pound of fat, 3500 more calories
must be burnt than consumed. One pound can be lost each week by burning 500
more calories each day than consumed. Because walking or running a mile each
consumes about 400 calories, combining exercise with reduced calorie
consumption may speed weight reduction.
