As far as I am concerned, my conscious relationship with my heart began when I was forty. Four memorable events occurred in that year: I got my first responsible office job, I joined a philosophical dining club, I started wearing spectacles (very self-consciously), and I was put on 'blood pressure tablets'. I now live five thousand miles away from that club, I am thirty years on from being forty, but I am still wearing glasses and taking the tablets. Such is permanence.
I remember as if it were yesterday, my doctor advising me forty years ago that I needed to lose weight and get much more exercise, otherwise I would need blood pressure tablets, and that once I started on those, I would have to take them for the rest of my life. He suggested using my thirty-minute lunch break to briskly walk the half a mile to the third-nearest greengrocer's, buy a piece of fruit, and walk back to my office. Up until that point, I had been used to getting a pasty or pie from the baker's next door. Quite often, my secretary would get it for me.
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I remember as if it were yesterday, my doctor advising me forty years ago that I needed to lose weight and get much more exercise, otherwise I would need blood pressure tablets, and that once I started on those, I would have to take them for the rest of my life. He suggested using my thirty-minute lunch break to briskly walk the half a mile to the third-nearest greengrocer's, buy a piece of fruit, and walk back to my office. Up until that point, I had been used to getting a pasty or pie from the baker's next door. Quite often, my secretary would get it for me.
The Heart and Heart Disease: A Personal Perspective
As far as I am concerned, my conscious relationship with my heart began when I was forty. Four memorable events occurred in that year: I got my first responsible office job, I joined a philosophical dining club, I started wearing spectacles (very self-consciously), and I was put on 'blood pressure tablets'. I now live five thousand miles away from that club, I am thirty years on from being forty, but I am still wearing glasses and taking the tablets. Such is permanence.
I remember as if it were yesterday, my doctor advising me forty years ago that I needed to lose weight and get much more exercise, otherwise I would need blood pressure tablets, and that once I started on those, I would have to take them for the rest of my life. He suggested using my thirty-minute lunch break to briskly walk the half a mile to the third-nearest greengrocer's, buy a piece of fruit, and walk back to my office. Up until that point, I had been used to getting a pasty or pie from the baker's next door. Quite often, my secretary would get it for me.
I remember as if it were yesterday, my doctor advising me forty years ago that I needed to lose weight and get much more exercise, otherwise I would need blood pressure tablets, and that once I started on those, I would have to take them for the rest of my life. He suggested using my thirty-minute lunch break to briskly walk the half a mile to the third-nearest greengrocer's, buy a piece of fruit, and walk back to my office. Up until that point, I had been used to getting a pasty or pie from the baker's next door. Quite often, my secretary would get it for me.
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| BN ID: | 2940186071907 |
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| Publisher: | Megan Publishing Services |
| Publication date: | 06/15/2024 |
| Series: | My Introduction to... |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 311 KB |
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