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Heart disease and diabetes.

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This article charts the heart issues of Bill Clinton. (Yes that man) :lol:
As diabetics, we are more prone to heart disease and this article is well worth a read.

I must admit my ignorance as I thought that a bypass was the end of the matter. He had one in 2004 and although he is doing everything right with regard to diet, BP and cholesterol, he is having more surgery. Seems that surgery is needed for all cases as there is a time limit on procedures carried out.

Taken from the article,
"The blood vessels used to create detours around the clogged arteries, start to get blocked too"
"Heart disease is a chronic condition. We do not have a cure but we have excellent treatments."

http://www.physorg.com/news185175069.html
 
When I had my heart attack in March 2008 it took them 9 days to stabalise me and then sent me down to Papworth for an angiogram.
They found that all three arteries were diseased so placed 2 stents in 1 artery and 1 stent in another, they wanted to give me a by-pass on the 3rd but chose against it due to my age, I was 46 at the time, this reason was because when you have a by-pass you normally need another in about 10 years time. So they scraped the artery instead.
 
Interesting.
The thing which caught my eye was the part which said he was 'donig everything right' regarding diet, cholesterol and bp, but it didn't seem to prevent the continued development of CVD? I guess that ought to raise the question 'how right is right?' If CVD is a result of lifestyle choices, then it would suggest possibly the wrong choices. To say that his condition is hereditary is really just another way of saying we have no idea what causes it?
To be honest, I've no idea what dietary advice he is given or follows. I guess the odds would strongly favour 'reduced fat' since that's the norm in this context. But then, he is a very intelligent, well read and learned man, so who knows? Still time for him to read Gary Taubes, particularly the chapter on Clinton's predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower!

fergus
 
Hi fergus,
Just google, low carb celebrities bill clinton. :wink: He is there.
 
"Bill Clinton says he can still recall what it felt like to be teased as a chubby boy in Hope, Ark. As an adult, he has continued his battles with weight. But thanks to a low-fat diet he adopted after a quadruple heart bypass in September 2004, he is 20 lbs. lighter than when he left the White House nearly five years ago"

Steve.
 
Like a lot of things it depends on your source and who you believe, most sources credit his weight loss to the South Beach diet which after a low carb first phase probably falls into neither extreme of dieting.
Since that surgery six years ago -- when doctors performed the operation after learning that the 42nd president's heart arteries were 90 percent clogged -- Clinton was put on a strict diet and ordered to lose weight.

At the time, Clinton, a Democrat who was president from 1993 to 2001, credited his doctors and the South Beach Diet for helping him trim down



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bill ... z0faWzXJJ7
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Seems like old Bill may have been a serial fad dieter, with lots of interjections of low fat along the way!.
It just goes to show that if someone with the knowledge and resources he had at his disposal cant work it out, then we have a task and a half on our hands!.

Steve
 
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