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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
First question is unless you lived with them I doubt you know what their diet truly was.
Second you say it does NOT work, but you don't quote anything to support that position, unless it is based solely on the aforementioned folks.
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I didn't say it wasn't good for you.......I said it didn't work for everyone.
Jim Fixx is a case in point.
Yes, I meant the aforementioned folks as you call them.
I just went to wikipedia to double check my spelling of Jim Fix. You are correct, it should be Fixx......interesting article, which I'm sure you've seen as well...........
If you had continued reading the wikipedia article, you would have seen it mentioned that he was pre disposed to heart disease. In his favor, he did make an attempt at switching to a healthier lifestyle from the cigarette smoking, etc. etc.
Again, with "some people" that I have known and that I have seen what they eat, and refuse to eat, at various get togethers and from what their wives would tell me, it really didn't matter one iota what they "GAVE UP" AS THEY STILL DIED OF CANCER........and it wasn't necessarily the extreme exercising that caused it..........it was in their genetics. Nuff said.
p.s. It doesn't say how tall he was. I know a lot of men who are well over six feet tall who weigh around that and are not obese. It would depend on his height and bone structure. The cigarettes obviously are a no no.........in more ways than one.
Jim Fixx
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James Fuller Fixx (April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was the author of the
1977 best-selling book,
The Complete Book of Running. Best known as
Jim Fixx, he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of
running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular
jogging.
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Life and work
Born in
New York City, Fixx was a graduate of
Trinity School in New York and
Oberlin College in
Ohio. His father, Calvin Fixx, was an editor at
TIME who worked with
Whittaker Chambers.
[1]
Fixx was a member of the high-IQ club,
Mensa,
[2] and published three collections of puzzles:
Games for the Super-Intelligent,
More Games for the Super-Intelligent, and
Solve It! The back flap of his first book says: "... He spent his time running on the roads and trails near his home, training for the
Boston Marathon."
Fixx started running in 1967 at age 35. He weighed 240 pounds (110 kg) and smoked two packs of cigarettes per day. Ten years later, when his book, Complete Book of Running (which spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the best-seller list) was published, he was 60 pounds (27 kg) lighter and smoke-free. In his books and on television talk shows, he extolled the benefits of physical exercise and how it considerably increased the average life expectancy.
The cover of his book,
The Complete Book of Running, featured Fixx's muscular legs against a red cover. The book sold over a million copies.
In 1980 Fixx wrote a follow up book titled
Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running: The Companion Volume to The Complete Book of Running.
In 1982 Fixx published
Jackpot!, the story of what happened after the publication of
The Complete Book of Running when he experienced the "Great American Fame Machine", becoming richer and more celebrated than he could have imagined. In one account he noted an experience of being on a television show with
George Harrison, and noticed that Harrison was not sitting down in the "green" room. Upon inquiry Harrison said that sitting down wrinkles the pants. He had become a
guru of the running boom.
Maximum Sports Performance, published posthumously, discusses the physical and psychological benefits of running and other sports, including increased self-esteem, acquiring a
"high" from running, and being able to cope better with pressure and tension.
Death
On July 20, 1984, Fixx died at age 52 of a fulminant
heart attack, after his daily run on
Vermont Route 15 in
Hardwick. The autopsy revealed that
atherosclerosis had blocked one coronary artery 95%, a second 85%, and a third 70%.
[3] Although there were opponents of Fixx's beliefs
[who?] who said this was evidence that running was harmful, medical opinion continued to uphold the link between exercise and longevity.
[4] In 1986 exercise physiologist,
Kenneth Cooper, published an inventory of the risk factors that might have contributed to Fixx's death.
[5] Granted access to his medical records and
autopsy, and after interviewing his friends and family, Cooper concluded that Fixx was genetically predisposed (his father died of a heart attack at age 43 and Fixx himself had a congenitally enlarged heart), and had several lifestyle issues. Fixx was a heavy
smoker prior to beginning running at age 36, he had a stressful occupation, he had undergone a second
divorce, and his weight before he took up running had ballooned to 220 pounds (100 kg).
[6]
A carved granite monument — a book with an inscription to Jim Fixx from the people of Northeast Scotland — now stands in Hardwick Memorial Park in Hardwick, Vermont.
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