A study looking at autopsies of people who died of unnatural causes in one county in Minnesota found that among people aged 16 to 64, 8.2 percent had high-grade coronary artery disease, but 83 percent had the beginnings of the disease. Researchers say this shows that the recent decline in reports of coronary artery disease will soon be over. They blame the increase on sedentary behavior, more fast food consumption and larger portion sizes, the removal of physical education from the schools and the increase in high fructose corn syrup…Don’t worry if you’re one of those people with clogged arteries or other health problems: research in the Archives of Internal Medicine says even people with diabetes and heart disease can live to be 100 if their doctors treat their health problems aggressively. About 700 people over the age of 100 were interviewed, and while two thirds of them had avoided age-related disease, the other third had problems like high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. Men who lived to be 100 were in better physical shape than the women, suggesting that men have to be in really good health in order to live that long…
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