Not your father's heart attack
Some of you may have noticed I have not posted here since friday.
Friday night I and my famly answered the question of whether or not genetics plays the strongest factor in predicting heart attacks.
It does.
Growing up in the 50's in NYC, we ate meat 7 days a week, and had chicken once (friday nights, and the skin was the best part, this course was alwas preceeded by chopped chicken livers with onions cooked in chicken fat), and once a week my mother tried to force us to eat calf's liver since the thinking at the time was that this had all the 'good stuff'. My father, grandfather, and uncle all grew up eating this way. They all smoked 2+ packs of ciagrettes a day.
They all died of heart attacks...my father at 48.
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