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From: howard@metheus.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: RIP: the running guru
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Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 22:31:55 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  4 22:31:55 1984
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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."