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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Personally, I wouldn't blame old age or genetics. If there's a family history of heart disease, a person should be eating a heart-healthy diet (a diet that many people claim is too strict). Genes need to be triggered by a poor diet and, secondarily, lack of exercise, and many are not even close to eating a heart healthy diet. Just look at all those who obviously sport huge waistlines of 40 inches or more.
If you are one of those people or have people like that in your neighborhood, I'm not surprised at your enthusiasm for these devices. But I see it differently. I see it as a big failure, a lack of personal responsibility as far as taking one's health seriously.
So, would I chip in $100. for one of these devices? No! Those who would do themselves in by eating junk-food will eventually do themselves in anyway. You save them once and the next time it will be during the night when no one knows they are having a heart attack.
It seems a big contradiction that we call The Villages "America's Healthiest Hometown" and then we need AED devices in every neighborhood. I would rather see people taking their health more seriously and educating themselves about how to prevent heart disease and how to reverse heart disease.
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I just read your third paragraph where you say you wouldn't chip in. That's your right, but I don't understand what you say next. You say that because they eat an unhealthy diet, that even if we save them once, they will just have another heart attack during the night when no one can save them. It sounds to me like one of the previously unknown side effects of being a vegetarian may be the loss of humanity and compassion. Perhaps, if we save them once, even if they don't change their diet, we could give them another 5 years with their spouses, children, grandchildren and friends. Perhaps, if we save them once, they will be frightened into a more healthy life style. I think you are trying to make a statement about self responsibility, but that was a swing and a miss. I'd rather have a heart that has seen an occasional cheeseburger than one that has no compassion.