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regular and moderate physical activity a family affair.
5. Teach children that smoking Is bad for health. Don't smoke yourself. Promote a type of self-dlsdpllne which will encourage the child not to start smoking.
6. Make doctor check-ups a family routine.
Risks of heart attack, of course. Increase with age. Males are more vulnerable than females. Some families seem to be more predisposed to heart disease than others. These three factors— age, sex and genetic Inheritance — cannot be controlled. But you can control the factors already mentioned and thereby improve your risk.
Take the middle-aged man with three major risk factors going against him — high cholesterol level in the blood, high blood pressure and excessive cigarette smoking. His chances of Incurring a heart attack are more than ten times greater than a man of the same age with none of these disadvantages.
Generally, the same risk factors applying to children also apply to parents. High blood pressure — much more common In adults than children — Is an additional risk factor of which parents themselves should be especially concerned. If the doctor finds that an adult has high blood pressure, he can probably bring It under control through drugs or other treatment.
In the second Installment of this series, we shall discuss diet and obesity In greater detail, and In the third Installment the subjects will be smoking, exercise, medical checkups, etc.
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