Add Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years
Part I, Heart Attack Prevention
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INTRODUCTION:
THE BIRTH OF THE PROGRAM
Antibiotics, vaccination and good hygiene have not totally freed humanity from infectious diseases but we manage to keep them from attacking us with great harm under control. Heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease and complication of these conditions constitute by far the majority of premature death, that is before retirement age. Most of these deceases are self-inflicted from life habits. There are growing scientific evidence that good health habits can help people to avoid cardiovascular disease, many cancers, emphysema, and a host of other lifestyle-related illnesses.1-12 The cost of treating these diseases have in our company increased at a rate of 18% each year. In the publication, The Nine Pillars of History, it was noted that Access to Medical Care was the Eighth Pillar. This means that the pillar Access to Medicine is as fundamental as food, water and energy. In time neither a company, nor any country for that matter, can withstand such inflationary pressure within a pillar, non-negotiable need for humanity. Com-petition has to control the cost. Public health education has to control the incidence rate and ought to be proven for efficacy as specifically as was that for the treatment of infectious diseases.
The work presented here proved that health education of a large population, our company at the time had 30,000 employees, can be effective to control the incidence rate of heart attack, high blood pressure, the use of cigarette smoking and alcohol and can be cost effective.
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About the Book
Dr. Gunnar Sevelius is a graduate of the Karolinska Medical Institute of Sweden. He became an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma Medical School. The Research Institute of Federal Aviation Agency in Oklahoma City sponsored his research on fatigue, stress and aging. Dr. Sevelius has worked as the Medical Director for the National Aeronautic and Space Company as the company Medical Director. Dr. Sevelius partnered with the Stanford Research Institute in collecting data and developing the unique health education program described.
Part one describes how to increase your longevity through:
• The benefit of exercise
• The control of weight and cholesterol
• The control of high blood pressure
• The control of smoking
• The control of stress
About the Author
The author is a graduate of the Karolinska Institute of Sweden. He was an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Medical School and later Medical Director of, first NASA and then for Lockheed Missile and Space Company. The data for this book was collected during a 20-year period.