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Be YOUR Heort
What are your chances of being affected
by heart disease? How can you guard
against it? And what about the contro-
versy over exercise?
by
Leslie
L.
McCullough and Paul Alexander
"A
w,
MoM,
have a heart." Sounds familiar, doesn't
.[1
it? Usually the youngster voicing this some–
times-plaintive cry is seeking to mollify
sorne recently issued directive or commaod.
Yet today in our society, far too many mothers
and fathers actually
need
to "have a heart." Their
own physical heart, so desperately needed to main–
tain life, is so badly damaged and scarred, or func–
tioning so poorly that they urgently need a heart -
one to keep them alive.
In spite of the tremendous medica! advances,
transplants and mechanical hearts, there is nothing
like
hciVing yout" own healthy heart.
Nylon tubing
and stainless steel, electronic pacemakers or some–
one else's heart can never really replace it. With
just a little
cace,
it will perform its job for seventy or
more years without a complaint.
With just
a
littie
cace ...
Without that little care look what happens.
Number One Killer
Heart disease is the number one killer among
the industrialized, prosperous nations of the world.
In the United States, more people die from cardio–
vascular disorders than from
THE COMBINED TOTAL