On Wednesday, July 21, 2004, at 01:47 PM, Ray Audette wrote:

> Jim Fixx founded the jogging cult in the USA,
> with his 1977 Complete Book of Running . One chapter is a scorching
> repudiation of a Playboy article titled Jogging Can Kill You .In 1984
> Jim
> Fixx was felled by a heart attack as he jogged through the
> streets near his home. He was 52.

Very funny reading. This one is a bit off though. Jim Fixx had the same
congenital heart ailment that killed his father in his mid thirties.
Fixx turned to running in an attempt to beat it. He outlived his father
by twenty years. Not too bad. I haven't read the book. What was his
diet advice, if any? That era runners were really big into
carbo-loading.