bbelk wrote:This sounds too fatalistic for my tastes. Don't go silently into that goodnight etc, etc. Buck up - this ain't about you. This is about me and my ongoing need to know something that I could find if I googled it don't have to cause you tell me the answer and then tell me to look at your web site.
I'm kinda with Brad, if I understood what he said. But whether I understood or not I would choose to score a satisfying life based on aspirations. I'll go further and suggest that aspirations are what drive us, whether we know it or not.
In other words I'd have a better life if I got laid more often by a better class of women.
I could also enjoy some tasty airhead variations that I don't have. (Not to mention some really tasty old Brit bikes, but I don't want to talk about that here.)
Ken
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There's no such thing as too many airheads
CVA-42 wrote:[Very true and I have thought about Jim Fixx many times. My understanding of his situation is that he actually had decent (or at least not really high) total cholesterol counts but that his HDL to total ratio was way out of whack and that probably contributed to the artery blockage which caused his heart attack.
His story really irritates me because my own HDL never gets much over 40, which is considered the low end of normal. Everybody else in my family is overweight and sedentary and eats poorly. Nobody in my family has ever had a heart attack. There has been some cancer, but mostly it seems to be Alzheimer's that get us. But I could easily see me being the first one to have a heart attack. I don't know if it would be ironic. More like unfunny slapstick.
Ed Miller
'81 R65
'70 Bonneville
Falls City, OR
"Gasoline makes people stupid." -- Chuey
"I'll believe corporations are people when the State of Texas executes one." Bumper sticker
enigmaT120 wrote:But I could easily see me being the first one to have a heart attack. I don't know if it would be ironic. More like unfunny slapstick.
That would be Tragedy. Both involve horrible painful things happening to people. The only difference between the two is that slapstick is usually funny, while tragedy is only occasionally funny.
Or, to quote Mel Brookes:
"If I got a paper cut, that’s a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy."
CVA-42 wrote:[Very true and I have thought about Jim Fixx many times. My understanding of his situation is that he actually had decent (or at least not really high) total cholesterol counts but that his HDL to total ratio was way out of whack and that probably contributed to the artery blockage which caused his heart attack.
His story really irritates me because my own HDL never gets much over 40, which is considered the low end of normal. Everybody else in my family is overweight and sedentary and eats poorly. Nobody in my family has ever had a heart attack. There has been some cancer, but mostly it seems to be Alzheimer's that get us. But I could easily see me being the first one to have a heart attack. I don't know if it would be ironic. More like unfunny slapstick.
Fixx had low HDL too. That's what I meant when I said his ratio was out of whack. His unfavorable total to HDL ratio was "probably" a factor in his eventual heart attack from what I've read but "probably" is not "definitely". Cholesterol levels and ratios are affected by several key factors and, in many people, they don't seem to matter anyway. In others, they do. I had low HDL for years and managed to get it into the fifties after I changed my diet but I couldn't get it higher no matter what I did. I was taking a drug called zetia to help keep my cholesterol down but I suspected it was making me fatigued. I talked to my doc about it and he said it "should not" have that effect. In any case, I took it upon myself to cut it out and, following that, my HDL crept up into the sixties and then the seventies where it has been for several years. Somewhat of a puzzle. All you can really do, I suppose, is to watch your diet, get exercise, try to keep your stress level down, and be aware of strange feelings and sensations like "indigestion".
