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> IMHO, it's not your physical achievement that counts.  After
> all, Jim Fixx achieved a lot and dropped dead of it.

Jin Fixx outlived his own father by some 20 years. Fixx died
in his fifties, his father in his thirties. They both shared
some congenital heart abnormality. Being lean and athletic
may be what gave Jim Fixx the extra 20 years.