This was a nifty piece that I read from Pritikin in Florida and I think will resonate with a lot of us!

YOU KNOW BILL! A man who at that time was 58 years old, a strapping six feet two inches tall and 220 pounds with a full head of silver hair, he was outwardly the picture of power and health. He received great medical care. He jogged and golfed frequently. But just like most Americans, Bill loved food—especially fatty, spicy, salty food. His typical American extra pounds pushed his blood pressure, sugar, and LDL (bad) cholesterol too high and dropped his HDL (good) cholesterol too low. He lived with chronic stress, big time. None of his numbers were awful, but every warning sign was there.

One day Bill had chest pain. The next week, his quadruple coronary bypass was all over the news, because Bill is President Bill Clinton. Yes, even American presidents can get heart disease. Since his wake-up call, Mr. Clinton has changed his lifestyle quite a bit. He is now off the ribs and fries and is working hard to do his part to prevent heart disease in this country.

Improving your lifestyle after a heart attack or bypass surgery is certainly a step in the right direction, but wouldn't it be so much better to do so before you end up in the coronary care unit or surgical suite? Or worse, the morgue? Our guests at the Pritikin Longevity Centre sometimes complain that they don't have enough time to exercise. We remind them that they will have plenty of time to exercise, but not much inclination ,after they are dead.
Heart disease is a great barometer of a lousy lifestyle. Wherever heart disease is epidemic, so are obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, and diabetes. Obviously, few people are heeding the early warning signs, because I don’t know any fellow cardiologists looking for more work. We live in fear of cancer, but heart disease is still the number-one killer in America. I can tell you how to prevent most heart disease simply by changing your lifestyle. What you eat, how often you exercise, how you manage your stress . . . it all matters, and it’s all easier to improve than you might think.

yes ur true better to adopt a healthy life instead of paying long bills

Very true it is very important to get the right balance in life, all work and no play made Jack a dull and dead boy! it is hard to make it work when we are all chasing the money we need to live on and things are getting more and more difficult as the financial crisis in the world goes from bad to worse. I work very hard from my home office and the temptation is there to just keep going all day and half the night. But every day I force myself to go out for a walk for and hour and a half, it cannot be all work or you and your family with suffer. Always try for balance in all things!

Heart diseases are now quite frequently appearing in the people because of the life styles and their food habits, we are in the age where there is a lots of competition in every aspect of life, we have to struggle a lot for the success, and we are not taking care of our body, we eat food which is unhealthy, there are so many things which makes our life miserable and we dont give any weigh-age to this.
It is not about the Mr. Bill Clinton or a common men, it is about the humans, everybody is just running hard to win the race of life but the proper care of the body should be kept in mind. If you will be healthy then you can think of participating in any competition.

Very wise words Clenbut! I was watching a programme on TV last night about fat and fat storage in the body (one of the major causes of heart disease) I was surprised to learn that even those people who look thin on the outside, who do not appear to be carrying any additional weight can store fat around their internal organs if their lifestyle and sedentary habits allow for this to happen. Quit a surprise to me and it seemed that this type of internal organ fat storage is more connected to lack of exercise.