Re: NBC's Tim Russert dies at 58 of heart attack

Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

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Jun 14, 2008, 6:59:55 AM6/14/08

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friend Protagonist wrote:
>
> Looks like his number was up!
> He was treated for enlarged heart before.
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_en_tv/obit_russert;_ylt=AvsVz693VqZnP0NC3nWc2yCGOrgF
> JS

From your cite:

"Russert had been recording voiceovers for this Sunday's "Meet The
Press" when he was stricken, NBC said. Russert's internist, Michael A.
Newman, said cholesterol plaque had ruptured in an artery, causing
sudden coronary thrombosis. Resuscitation was begun immediately and
continued at Sibley Memorial Hospital, to no avail.

Newman said an autopsy showed that Russert had an enlarged heart, NBC
reported. Russert had been diagnosed with asymptomatic coronary artery
disease, which he was controlling with medication and exercise, the
doctor said."

From elsewhere:

"The day's tragedy began at 1:40 p.m. when emergency crews received a
call from NBC. A unit was dispatched at 1:41 and arrived three minutes
later, according to Carrie Brooks of Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty's
office. She said Russert was unresponsive at the scene and taken to
Sibley Hospital a few miles away.

Alan Etter of D.C. Fire and Rescue said Russert was found in a small
office, so small he almost spilled out of the room. A person with him
was trying to breathe for him, using a rescue breathing mask, but
wasn't doing chest compressions which are now known to be vital for
saving lives.

The paramedics on the scene shocked Russert's heart three times to try
to restart it, but he did not respond. They left for Sibley Hospital
at 2:07, arriving at 2:23 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the
hospital."

Source:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-06-13-russert-obit_N.htm?csp=1

My condolences to Tim Russert's surviving friends and family during
this their sad time.

Prayerfully in the awesome name of the Messiah, Jesus Christ,

Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

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Jun 15, 2008, 2:50:13 PM6/15/08

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Uncle Enrico wrote:
> Stan Horwitz wrote:
> > "Protagonist" <sza...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Let's take Russert's utimely death as a reminder of how important it is
> > to get regular physicals and keep our blood pressure and cholesterol
> > levels in check.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/browse_frm/thread/08fbf2d9ff975245#

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Jun 15, 2008, 2:59:45 PM6/15/08

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so

Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

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Jun 15, 2008, 3:21:11 PM6/15/08

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convicted neighbor % wrote:

> Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > Uncle Enrico wrote:
> >> Stan Horwitz wrote:

> >>> friend "Protagonist" <sza...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Let's take Russert's utimely death as a reminder of how important
> >>> it is to get regular physicals and keep our blood pressure and
> >>> cholesterol levels in check.
> >

> > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/52678e2ba892e846?

> >
> > Suggested additional reading:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/058460e935ec2ba4?
> >
> >> Don't forget the D and E.
> >
> > Neither D nor E nor both can overcome the overeating:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/117245343707310e?
> >
> > This is by GOD's design per the Spirit-guided understanding of Exodus
> > 16:16.
> >
> > Therefore it remains much smarter and wiser to eat less, down to the
> > right amount, which is the Biblical omer named in the afore-cited
> > verse.
> >
> > "See you are well again. Now stop sinning or something worse may
> > happen to you." -- LORD Jesus Christ.
> >
> > Amen.
> >
> > Doing something different from what GOD desires such as overeating is
> > sinning.
> >
> > Simply a few Spirit-guided words written for the wise and discerning.
> >
> > Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic...
> >
> > Marana tha
>

> so

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Kofi

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Jun 15, 2008, 10:55:52 PM6/15/08

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Did anybody stop to consider that Mr. Russert may have contracted
diabetes and died prematurely because he spent a lifetime eating the
very foods his network advised as being safe - the very foods that paid
his salary? I don't know his diet or his full medical history but
almost every food advertised on TV is unhealthy to some degree and
produces in the wider population more of the very problems that plagued
Mr. Russert. Broadcasters go out of their way to hide these facts from
us, describing this suppression of information as "freedom of choice."

Trans fats were advertised as being superior to saturated fats for
almost three decades when in fact they caused horrendous cardiovascular
problems [PMID 15680331, 12936917]. Even today, fried foods and foods
rich in sugar are plastered with cute cartoon characters or pretty,
happy face to indoctrinate our children into thinking these items are
safe and healthy when in fact they are anything but. Companies target
children specifically because they are impressionable and in the process
of forming their life-long eating habits and they have a limited amount
of self-control.

The result is an epic of diabetes and obesity which is passed down to
our offspring through epigenetic changes. Ingredients like MSG and
sugar in its various forms are sometimes added to specifically increase
the user's appetite and trip the same dopamine-releasing addiction
circuit in the brain activated by nicotine and cocaine. These same
foods also trip stress circuits that reinforce cravings for sugary, fat
foods. The end result is chronic inflammation in the body. For the
nation who defeated the Nazis, it's a dark irony that we have undertaken
the largest eugenics experiment in human history, punishing people with
genetic variations that put them at risk for diabetes and obesity when
combined with the American diet.

For those who say this is all freedom of choice and bad choices are the
customer's fault, I say the following. You can't have freedom of choice
if you are consistently denied information about the consequences of
those choices - a campaign Mr. Russert may have, however tacitly,
participated in simply by remaining silent. Second, cravings and
addictions are non-rational drives. How free are you to rationally
choose when the products involved induce cravings that impair your
long-term rational judgment? Finally, what happened to stoicism in our
consumer driven culture? What happened to promoting self-denial and
self-discipline?

Many of the politicians most responsible for decisions to protect the
food industry from accountability are those claiming the loudest to be
the biggest "Christians" - and yet aren't we supposed to be our
brother's keeper? Aren't we supposed to refrain from leading others to
sin? Christian enlightenment isn't achieved through will to power but
instead through reflection and repentance - two qualities the national
Republican party has been lacking in.

If people in Mr. Russert's position would stand up to this iron triangle
of manufactured food interests, they might lose their jobs but they
might also live longer, healthier lives - along with the rest of us.

Protagonist

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Jun 15, 2008, 11:59:45 PM6/15/08

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Nicely said!
Now days, as we spend more time working and less time cooking, most people
live on processed food and not looking it labels..
Processed foods are loaded with sugar, salt, unhealthy fats and who knows
what artificial crap is put in there for flavoring and colors.
I've been trying to eat low sodium, to keep my BP low and I don't how some
one can keep 2400mg or less sodium diet, when one small can of beans has
900mg in it.
Even salad dressings has 400mg/2 tablespoon!
I just bought some pickles, it has 290 mg sodium/ 1/4 pickle. I use to eat a
lot more than 1/4 pickle for my meal or sandwich!
Now I just wash/rinse the sodium out if it's caned food or has high sodium
in it.
JS

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Don Kirkman

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Jun 16, 2008, 2:44:26 AM6/16/08

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It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kofi wrote in article
<kofi-E9FAB3.2...@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>:

>Did anybody stop to consider that Mr. Russert may have contracted
>diabetes and died prematurely because he spent a lifetime eating the
>very foods his network advised as being safe - the very foods that paid
>his salary? I don't know his diet or his full medical history but
>almost every food advertised on TV is unhealthy to some degree and
>produces in the wider population more of the very problems that plagued
>Mr. Russert. Broadcasters go out of their way to hide these facts from
>us, describing this suppression of information as "freedom of choice."

You have every right to publish your opinions, but IMO you have no right to
spread insinuations and rumors about a person, alive or dead, based on no
evidence whatever.

You start from an assumption with no evidence and expand it (while admitting you
know nothing about Russert's medical history or diet) into a diatribe touting
your own presuppositions but larding your message with insinuations about a dead
man.

>Trans fats were advertised as being superior to saturated fats for
>almost three decades when in fact they caused horrendous cardiovascular
>problems [PMID 15680331, 12936917]. Even today, fried foods and foods
>rich in sugar are plastered with cute cartoon characters or pretty,
>happy face to indoctrinate our children into thinking these items are
>safe and healthy when in fact they are anything but. Companies target
>children specifically because they are impressionable and in the process
>of forming their life-long eating habits and they have a limited amount
>of self-control.
>
>The result is an epic of diabetes and obesity which is passed down to
>our offspring through epigenetic changes. Ingredients like MSG and
>sugar in its various forms are sometimes added to specifically increase
>the user's appetite and trip the same dopamine-releasing addiction
>circuit in the brain activated by nicotine and cocaine. These same
>foods also trip stress circuits that reinforce cravings for sugary, fat
>foods. The end result is chronic inflammation in the body. For the
>nation who defeated the Nazis, it's a dark irony that we have undertaken
>the largest eugenics experiment in human history, punishing people with
>genetic variations that put them at risk for diabetes and obesity when
>combined with the American diet.
>
>For those who say this is all freedom of choice and bad choices are the
>customer's fault, I say the following. You can't have freedom of choice
>if you are consistently denied information about the consequences of
>those choices - a campaign Mr. Russert may have, however tacitly,

My God, have you no sense of decency or honor? (To paraphrase Joseph Welch, the
lawyer who finally brought down the infamous Senator Joe McCarthy who had
everybody cowering before him.)

Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

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Jun 16, 2008, 6:46:34 AM6/16/08

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Kofi wrote:
> convicted friend % wrote:
>
> > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/6798f3aac716e217?

>
> Did anybody stop to consider that Mr. Russert may have contracted

> diabetes...

It is unlikely that his internist would have missed the diagnosis of
type-2 diabetes since blood glucose is part of routine blood testing.

Moreover, type-2 diabetes is not caused by what we are eating but by
the visceral adipose tissue (VAT or black fat) that has arisen from
the sin of overeating, which happens whenever we eat more than we
need, which has been predetermined to be one omer according to a

Spirit-guided understanding of Exodus 16:16.

May you and other dear neighbors, friends, and brethren have a
blessedly wonderful 2008th year since the birth of our LORD Jesus
Christ as the Messiah ...

... by being hungrier:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/f891e617d10bd689?

Hunger is wonderful ! ! !

It's how we know what GOD desires, which is all that is good.

Yes, hunger is our knowledge of good versus evil that Adam and Eve
paid for with their and our immortal lives.

"Blessed are you who hunger NOW...

... for you will be satisfied." -- LORD Jesus Christ (Luke 6:21)

Amen.

Here is a Spirit-guided exegesis of Luke 6:21 given in hopes of
promoting much greater understanding:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/cc2aa8f8a4d41360?

Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be healthier...

Marana tha

Prayerfully in the awesome name of the Messiah, Jesus Christ,

Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

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Jun 18, 2008, 2:03:20 AM6/18/08

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friend Protagonist wrote:
>
> Malik Obama confirms his half-brother Barack grew up a Muslim
>
> http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm

An additional article from your cited web site:

http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/12917.htm

Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic...

Marana tha

Prayerfully in the awesome name of our Messiah, Jesus Christ,

Andrew <><
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