Reply #14: hate to say it but diet does matter [View All]

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There are loads of heart problems in my family. My mother had a lot of heart problems (about 13 separate conditions and diseases). She not only cut out fast food but all red meat and fried foods. She lived many years longer than what her doctor, one of the leading experts on heart disease, ever imagined.

She lived on boiled vegetables and baked potatoes. Also exercised 20 min a day. I know if my blood pressure and chlorestoral go up that this will be my fate in life (and I love to eat).

My husband, on the other hand, has high blood pressure and chlorestoral (sp). You cant pry burgers and fast food from his cold dead hands but believe me, I work on it. His father and brother are diabetic. He has none of the health problems they had at his age because I am all over him about his eating habits. These burgers are death pills for people like him.

I wholeheartedly support decisions to remove fast food from hospitals. It is awfully disheartening to watch people do the wrong thing with their eating habits when you are trying to help them. I know how the doctors feel.