Healthy

 

In 1987, at the age of FORTY (40), I gave up the following COLD TURKEY:

• Smoking cigarettes
• Drinking alcohol
• Eating red meat
• Eating fried foods
• Eating sweets

Additionally:

I made a point of managing my stress by exercising for at least 30 minutes each day.  This exercise for the most part included walking and to some degree the use of strength machines, but no dead weights were involved.

This change in my health DID NOT PREVENT me from having a triple-bypass level heart attack TWENTY (20) years later.  The cardiac surgeon told me that I was so damn healthy that my heart created its own bypass that saved my life.

He also said that there were no pre-existing conditions that could have laid the foundation for me to have this heart attack, so situation was just an ANOMOLY.   This surgeon inserted 5 stints in my three arteries on the left side.

In my seventies, I had five lower back disks fused because of spinal stenosis and arthritis, but the surgeon told me that my condition would have occurred earlier in life had I not been so physically healthy.

In short, I believe my current physical condition is a direct result of what I stopped in 1987 and how I changed my life.,