Since as a schoolboy -do they still have schools ? - I have been taking my mothers advice of consuming a daily fish oil pill, usually of the Halibut Liver Oil variety, now known as Omega 3 in the present yuppie-speak, and for the past few years a daily Aspirin, and I also cut down on the fatty meats, salt, dairy produce, bacon and eggs,fish and chips etc. years ago, not fanatically but sensibly - I thought.
When my blood pressure and cholesterol exceeded the NZ CAA norms, I started the bood pressure and Statin pills, and at my last renewal medical the ECG was OK but my age ( what advancing age ? ) dictated a stress ECG during which the operator raised his eyes and asked if I was driving home ? !!
Within a week I had 2 arterial stents inserted. I was not happy, and complained to the surgeon about all the precautions I had taken, so what was the point ? He suggested that my precautions had only delayed the fateful day, not prevented it.
Medical science changes its' mind about every 5 years - eggs are OK again now, apparently - and I once had a Flt. Eng. who decreed that when the med. profession got around to admitting that lying around on the sofa eating crisps and drinking beer was the best formula for longevity and fitness, he was way ahead of them !