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With its shop-lined main street, baseball field and grassy square, Wellsburg, W. Va., is in many ways a typical American town. Perhaps too typical. A survey last spring found that almost 70% of the Wellsburg area's 11,000 residents were at risk for heart disease. "I was just shocked that my cholesterol was that high," says Kitty Weidner, 75, whose reading was 241 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood. Admits store owner Tom Zurbuch, 46, a former junk- food junkie whose cholesterol level was about 265: "Apparently, we haven't been eating right...
...Wellsburg had a change of heart last May, when Bayer, the pharmaceutical company, launched a $4 million, two-year experiment aimed at improving the townspeople's coronary fitness by teaching them the rudiments of healthy living. The basic rules: throw away the cigarettes, control blood pressure and, perhaps most important, bring down blood-cholesterol levels through diet and exercise programs. Among the first results late this summer: an average 8.3% decline in cholesterol levels...
What's good for the residents of Wellsburg is good for other Americans, who are increasingly getting the message that poor eating and living habits are major contributors to heart disease. Scientists are convinced that well- designed prevention programs can cut the incidence of heart disease in the U.S. by two-thirds, perhaps even more. "Twenty years from now," says Dr. Scott Grundy, a nutrition researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, "I expect to see a dramatic reduction in heart attacks...
...After climbing the ruins of Palenque, Uxmal and Chichen Itza, snorkeling at Cozumel, flying to Chicago, then driving a nine-year-old Thunderbird, our 15-year-old grandson and Willy, our dachshund, home to Wellsburg, W. Va., in eleven hours (legally, too), f grab my beloved TIME and find I "passed the arbitrary milestone of 65 into the limbo of old age" five years ago. I didn't know...
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