I was reading about heart attacks online and found a great resource.  St Jude Medical, Inside Cardiac Arrest.  They provide information about the risk factors, warning signs, and treatment of Sudden Cardiac Arrest.  It also had a couple of videos explaining cardiac arrest and the anatomy of the heart (http://www.insidecardiacarrest.com/video_suddencardiacarrest.aspx and http://www.insidecardiacarrest.com/video_humanheart.aspx.

Given both my current weight (360 at last Friday's weight in) and my body shape (I carry a lot of my fat in the mid section aka belly fat), I am at risk of sudden cardiac arrest aka a heart attack. 

Did you know that sudden cardiac arrest kills 325,000 people a year - or nearly 900 per day? Usually without warning and if you don't get help in the 1st 4 to 6 minutes it can be fatal.

So, enough of the morbid talk...  My apologizes for those with a weak disposition.  Having learned more about heart attacks and sudden cardiac arrest I am convinced more now that ever that it is time for me to lose the weight and get into shape for the rest of my life.

Hoping you are have a great day...  I plan on swimming and maybe playing some volleyball (although it is supposed to be 100 degrees today so maybe I will just swim.)

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Originally posted 2008-12-01 00:28:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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