Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site metheus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!ogcvax!metheus!howard From: howard@metheus.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: RIP: the running guru Message-ID: <257@metheus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 22:31:55 EDT Article-I.D.: metheus.257 Posted: Sat Aug 4 22:31:55 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 01:07:53 EDT References: <971@orca.UUCP> Organization: Metheus, Portland Oregon Lines: 17 What you (and many of the media accounts) failed to mention was that Jim Fixx wasn't ALWAYS a running guru. He used to be an overweight author with a genius-level IQ, and rabid MENSA member. For example, he wrote "Games for the Super-Intelligent". In early middle age he took up running, lost many pounds, wrote a best-selling running book, and became a minor celebrity. That he died at 52 in no way implies that someone who has taken care of themselves since youth with respect to diet and exercise is likely to suffer the same fate. Some damage is pretty much irreversible. Howard A. Landman ogcvax!metheus!howard (till August 14th) "You gave all you had, why you want to give more? The more that you give, the more it will take to the thin line beyond which you really can't fake."