-=| FYI - TMC Health-Mag(tm) Tidbits |=-

  With the average American consuming  about 15 pounds of salt  each
   year,  it's no wonder that *37* million Americans suffer from high
   blood pressure.

  The strain of smoking just one pack of cigarettes per day is equal
   to being 100 pounds overweight!

  Each pound of fat contains about 3/4 mile of blood vessels,  every
   excess  pound of fat  making it that much harder for your heart to
   pump blood.

  The typical American consumes approximately *128* pounds of  sugar
   per year!

  Salt, or sodium,  causes the fluid level in the blood to increase;
   in order to  move the  additional fluid, the heart  must work that
   much harder, producing strain.

  Harvard pathologists have found that  once a single artery  is 50%
   blocked,  virtually no  segment of the  other coronary arteries is
   free of the disease.
