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...best, exercise-particularly regular exercise-is good for the heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and metabolism. Says Jim Barnard, research cardiologist at U.C.L.A.: "It's similar to tuning up your car's engine to make the car run more efficiently." Vigorous physical effort helps release tension too. But it can also do a lot of damage, especially if the athlete is a neophyte or weekend warrior, both of whom tend to try to do too much too soon...
...social criticism hat reads like a novel, though she makes no Mailerian claims for the achievement. She heartily dislikes Tarnower, his "repilian" face, his dictatorial and unimaginative diet book and his Westchester, N.Y., house, which she finds "Japanoid" and "claustral." From testimony and private conversation, she concludes that the cardiologist was "a small-time emotional imperialist," and "a glutton for other people's vulnerabilities." She gleefully notes that he took a nightly laxative mixed with applesauce and that, according to the autopsy report, the deceased was overweight by the standards set forth in his book, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...
...economy model stripped down to an irreducible ascetic tackiness-can be ours for more dollars than our fathers used to earn, total, in ten or 15 years, for a price that once would have purchased Tara, or at least the six-bedroom Lake Forest spread of a successful cardiologist...
...matter how many miracles doctors perform, coronary disease will never be brought under control unless the public pitches in. Says Cardiologist James Schoenberger, professor of preventive medicine at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center: "We can't solve the problem with beta or calcium blockers, heart transplants, coronary bypasses or other forms of palliative medicine. The only solution is prevention." Easier said than done. Doctors disagree about the best way to go about it. Also, prevention requires the self-discipline to break some bad habits...
...children. Says Dr. Charles Glueck of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine: "If you want to prevent heart disease you can't start at the age of 45." Indeed, some researchers estimate as many as 5 million American children may have high cholesterol counts. Predicts Pediatric Cardiologist Dan McNamara of Baylor: "In the future there will be a time for a child's preventive cardiology checkup just as there now is a child's dental checkup...