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Originally Posted by Villages PL
You mentioned food, genetics, environment, stress and exercise. Unless you can come up with another one, I don't think the list goes "on and on". You can put genetics aside because genes only cause a very small fraction of disease. Degenerative diseases are caused mainly by lifestyle. So that leaves food, environment, stress and exercise.
This thread is about Bush so I would combine environment and stress together. He lived in a stressful environment. His father was president and he himself ran for office several times. This is typical of a type A personality (driven, hard-charging, aggressive). That's what it takes to get to the top.
As far as food, we know he once had a drinking problem. And we know, as a Texan, he was/is a big barbecue guy. That's a no brainer.
That leaves exercise. Didn't the opening post state that he was in three 62 mile bicycle rides? We know he's very competitive. There again we see his type A personality. He's an overachiever and overdoes everything. He takes a pleasurable sport and turns it into stress. Chronic stress leads to elevated stress hormones (cortisol). Higher levels of cortisol leads to insulin resistance and higher levels of insulin (hyperinsulinemia). That, along with poor diet, is how heart disease comes about.
I think it's a pretty good educated guess based on what I know about him.
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I can come up with more for example accident such as in penetrating trauma and the list goes on from there. Stop deflecting, the OP ask if Bush should now consider a diet like Clinton's and my point is it's not that simple. For example how does anyone on this forum know what caused the blockage? maybe it was a combination of all of the factors, maybe it was pesticides in the vegetables he eats? maybe it was trauma caused a few years back when he almost chocked to death on a pretzel he was eating? I don't know and nether does the OP or you!