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Now please don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to ruin your day but recently, the Harvard School of Public Health announced results of a study on the 10 most preventable deaths. (ever notice how these articles never have 11 or 17! Must be the Letterman ‘top 10′ trickle down effect.) At 10, is alcohol USE and abuse. Overall, it takes away from us far more than it gives. #9 is excessive intake of trans fatty acids. These are man made fats and found in all the so called junk foods. They hide well in foods and attack fiercely. #8 is low intake of omega 3’s (fish oil). In my opinion, only FISH are exempt from needing this quality supplement! #7 is excessive salt intake. Responsible for 100,000 deaths a year. (More than the entire Viet Nam war). #6 is elevated LDL cholesterol. Let’s leave this one with –the jury is still out on this one. More on it in a later Blog. #5 is elevated blood sugar. Yup, no doubt about this one. Sugar is more addicting than heroin. #4 is lack of physical exercise. Now come on, it’s 2009. Let’s at least walk away from this blog. Walking is king. #3 is being obese or overweight. This is a national crisis and extends down to infancy. We need to reset the legacy for our children. #2 is high blood pressure. This, to me, is ‘Duh!’. Just look at the above numbers and they all add up to …. oh yeah, high blood pressure. It accounts for 230,000 deaths in women. #1 is hard to believe. Smoking. Now truth be told (and it alway is), I was once a smoker years ago as a Navy fighter pilot. But hopefully everyone has learned, since 1964, smoking kills. The words out but the addiction is real. Need help? Call me or any physician who gives a damn and get whatever it takes to help with this devastating drug—nicotine. Otherwise, everything else just goes up in smoke!