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inety percent? Of what? You’re going to be surprised at the answer. And now that you know the answer, here’s the full question: “What percentage of the U.S. population is expected to develop high blood pressure in their lifetimes?” Do not adjust your Medical Examiner. You read correctly. That is a rather shocking statistic, but it’s a perfect introduction to February, aka American Heart Month. Even though heart attack prevention is as simple as ABC (see box), in this article let’s focus on just one heart health void strategy. It falls within the “C” category, tobacco and has the added benefit of helping in both heart attack prevention and lowering ecome blood pressure. more The genius trick in pulling this off is active amazingly simple: reduce the amount of salt in your diet. That’s it! hoose good However, like anything else that seems nutrition too good to be true, there’s always a catch or two. For starters, just about the only product that doesn’t have added salt is salt itself. So it’s good to be a bit of a private eye in looking for sodium in all the usual places and plenty of unexpected ones. But the payoff is big.
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he physician you see in the picture above is one of the truly forgotten keynote figures in the long and illustrious history of medicine. It would be extremely unlikely for you to be unfamiliar with his work, even though its most famous phase took place in 1856 and 1857 and is used and respected to this day, yet his magnum opus went largely to the fame and glory of another physician, shown to the right. Our friend in the oval frame was named Henry Vandyke Carter. Sound familiar? Not likely. The gentleman in the rectangular frame was named
Henry Gray. Sound familar? Perhaps not. Ah, but what if we said Gray’s Anatomy? Would that make a difference? If you have an old copy, you may have to do a bit of
searching to find the name H. V. Carter, MD, but it’s in there at least once, in small print on the title page below the larger name Henry Gray. Some newer editions of the book do not contain Carter’s name. Most people probably assume that Henry Gray created the illustrations in the book that bears his name, but that distinction belongs solely to the other Henry, Henry Carter. Although the first edition was published in 1858, Gray’s Anatomy is on bookshelves in doctors offices and bookstores to this very day, although it must be said that, as is often the case with book adaptations, the printed version and the screen version bear little to no resemblance to each other. Anyone familiar with this still-respected bible of anatomical reference knows that its co-creators contributed equally to the book’s value: Carter’s illustrations would be greatly diminished without Gray’s clear and informative text; the text would have much less reference value without the accompanying detailed illustrations. In fact, the publishers of the first edition wanted to ascribe joint authorship to the book, but Gray objected. It became Gray’s Anatomy, was an immediate success, and has been ever since. If there is any such thing as karma, it was in play here. Please see WHO IS THIS? page 4
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