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Age, Eating Habits Catch Up With Clinton (McPresident Alert)
Newsday ^ | 9/3/04

Posted on 09/03/2004 4:53:47 PM PDT by harrycarey

Age, Eating Habits Catch Up With Clinton

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

September 3, 2004, 5:51 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton is a man close to 60, with a little pudge and a longtime love of junk food. That fits the stereotype for heart disease.

Needing bypass surgery, however, suggests that the former president's disease is relatively extensive, and that's surprising for an active dignitary who presumably has top-notch and timely physical checkups.

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Age aside, Clinton has other risk factors: heart disease in his mother's family, too many pounds and occasional periods of borderline high cholesterol. Plus that love of junk food.

(Excerpt) Read more at nynewsday.com ...


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1 posted on 09/03/2004 4:53:48 PM PDT by harrycarey
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This is not the picture I was looking for.

But does anybody remember Clinton in the early days jogging in his short, shorts? With his white flabby legs hanging out?

2 posted on 09/03/2004 4:55:08 PM PDT by harrycarey
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Our living long has more to do with obedience, treatment to parents, and sin in our life ...the Bible says to 'obey your parents that your life may be long upon the earth', now tell me why God didn't add "as long as you don't eat junk food.' Sin is also mentioned as a life shortner. Yes we must be reasonable in what we eat, but I had many over 90 family members who believed that "pork fat rules".


3 posted on 09/03/2004 4:57:26 PM PDT by Kackikat
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Yes, the very Un-Presidential Pasty White Thighs.

Then I remember the video of him in his jogging outfit, along with several others, all in their jogging outfits, hanging out in the Oval Office.

Ronald Reagan never took his coat off while he was in there.


4 posted on 09/03/2004 4:59:34 PM PDT by Guillermo (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad.)
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To: harrycarey

The only thing I want to know is: Is he dead yet?


5 posted on 09/03/2004 5:00:24 PM PDT by putupjob
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Ok I'm no Clinton fan but this is a silly article based on idle speculation. The author has no way of knowing what exactly caused Clinton's heart troubles (for example what Clinton's diet has been recently) and you or I wouldn't like it if such speculation were made about us.


6 posted on 09/03/2004 5:00:39 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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Side effects and health issues
Cocaine consumption causes high blood-pressure and increases the heart rate. There is risk associated with cocaine use, regardless of purity or whether the drug is ingested by snorting, injecting, or smoking. Potential side effects of cocaine usage are aggression, depression, and paranoia. Cocaine is reported to be more addictive than heroin, alcohol, or nicotine as measured in terms of "reinforcement" (the measure of the substance's ability, in human and animal tests, to get users to take it again and again) [1] http://www.pdxnorml.org/NYT_addictive_080294.html . Typically, the "high" is most powerful directly after consumtion. After a while it dies down and the stomach begins to ache - during a period of consumption users tend to wait around thirty minutes before ingesting more of the drug to postpone this effect and revisit the initial high.

Excessive doses of cocaine may lead to seizures and death from respiratory failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, or heart-failure. There is no specific antidote for cocaine overdose.

Cocaine use is associated with a lifetime risk of heart attack that is seven times that of non-users. During the hour after cocaine is used, heart attack risk rises twenty-four times. It accounts for 25% of the heart attacks in the 18 to 45 year old age group.

Evidence suggests that users who smoke or inject cocaine may be at even greater risk than those who snort it. Cocaine smokers suffer from acute respiratory problems including coughing, shortness of breath, and severe chest pains with lung trauma and bleeding. The injection cocaine user is at high risk for transmitting or acquiring diseases if needles or other injection equipment are shared. In most cases, each purchase is about two grams for one day of smoking (after treatment with ammonia). In addition, it appears that compulsive cocaine use may develop even more rapidly if the substance is smoked rather than snorted. This is because the high from snorting is much less prominent than from smoking. Furthermore, prolonged snorting of cocaine can degrade the cartilage separating the nostrils (the septum), leading eventually to its complete disappearance. The smoking of cocaine breaks down tooth enamel and causes tooth decay and loss.


7 posted on 09/03/2004 5:01:31 PM PDT by doug from upland (John Kerry cried and asked TaRAYaz to make the SwiftVets stop)
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8 posted on 09/03/2004 5:01:48 PM PDT by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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Did they call Klintoon a "dignitary"? Bwahahahaha!


9 posted on 09/03/2004 5:03:21 PM PDT by austingirl
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she dont lie, she dont lie, babe

COCAINE!!!!


10 posted on 09/03/2004 5:03:31 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Kackikat
...the Bible says to 'obey your parents that your life may be long upon the earth' - So all clinton has to do is obey a bus load of insurance salesmen and an alcoholic nurse!
11 posted on 09/03/2004 5:04:12 PM PDT by Free_at_last_-2001 (is clinton in jail yet?)
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To: austingirl

He sure isn't "dignified".


12 posted on 09/03/2004 5:04:34 PM PDT by .38sw
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To: putupjob
The only thing I want to know is: Is he dead yet?

No. And though you probably won’t like hearing it, I’ve said it before – he’ll probably outlive the both of us.

Doesn’t matter though. Nobody gets out alive.

13 posted on 09/03/2004 5:04:51 PM PDT by Who dat?
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To: harrycarey

I heard he had to see someone from INTERNal medicine.


14 posted on 09/03/2004 5:05:26 PM PDT by hometoroost
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To: Incorrigible

How old is M. Moore? One would think he'd get it first.


15 posted on 09/03/2004 5:05:32 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: doug from upland

It was rumored he did rehab in Minnesota before running for President... and then once in the Oval office returned to his constant use -- that destroyed his mucous membranes (the "suspicious" allergies he suffered).


16 posted on 09/03/2004 5:06:04 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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17 posted on 09/03/2004 5:08:28 PM PDT by montag813
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Here's to hoping he's going to be okay...

and here's to hoping he doesn't keep Kerry off of the TV for very long!

18 posted on 09/03/2004 5:08:46 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Is there anything factual to back this up or is this just one of those rumors? Hey, I don't care for the man for a whole host of reasons but if there is no real evidence to support such an insinuation then let's not travel down that road. Our President has seen his share of rumors that haven't been proved.


19 posted on 09/03/2004 5:10:24 PM PDT by misterrob
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20 posted on 09/03/2004 5:10:26 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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