I'll repost what I said at RMJ's
I think it's pretty funny that a lot of the conspiracy theorists find it unreasonable that a 71-year-old man who is known to have eaten pretty much every meal from a restaurant (when a TV was stolen from his kitchen he didn't know it for weeks because he never went in there) and who is known to have drunk heavily - believe me, he was an alcoholic and not a recent one - could have died as a result of hardening of the arteries.
I was just talking to one of my younger relatives a couple of weeks back about how when I was a kid it was far from unusual for men in their 30s and 40s to die of heart attacks. Off hand, thinking of it right now, I could name you at least four or five of those who died in my town at the time. It's not because diets have generally gotten better, drugs for treating the effects of a meat centered diet mixed with other health endangering habits have gotten better.
Still, since the Republicans live by spreading rumors and lies, I've got no problem with what they do being turned against them, except it does nothing to defeat the deadly error that there is such a thing as a "right to lie."
Dr Peter Hortez posted a tweet about avoiding Graham’s fate, mostly to do with monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol. Things I’ve been doing for close to 50 years. The late running guru James Fixx dropped dead mid-stride. His family had a history of heart disease, and he was trying to outrun it.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, my father’s father smoked as heavily as my father, and died at 68; my father’s brother died at 46 (heart problems). Dad smoked like a chimney and had two heart attacks and two open heart surgeries. He quit smoking in the last decade of his life, and died of a brain tumor days after his 90th birthday.
One never know, fo one? Me, I’m opting for self care (diet, exercise) and medical care. Graham was younger than me (barely). I’d like to last a bit longer.
Sorry, again. That ☝️ was me. Forgot to sign in.
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