HEART FACTS

Statements that attempt to capture vital information needed to change your behavior:

1. The Reader's Digest Heart Attack Message is a short article that will change your behavior to the heart attack problem.

2. What you don't know about a heart attack can kill you!

3. The best emergency is the heart attack that does not happen!

4. Detecting smoke before the fire that never takes place!

5. This is one condition where you need to be proactive (rather than reactive).

6. Interrupting the heart attack as it starts allows you to practice "infarctus interruptus".

7. The EHAC Moment is similar to the KODAK Moment, a precious critical period of time where you need to have the knowledge to act to save one's life.

8. Nipping heart attack at the bud stage has been called the prodromal approach, "Acting early is twice as beneficial as acting late." Bis dat Qui Cito dat

9. Heart attacks in many cases present as Stuttering symptoms (thank God!) that allows the person to act to avoid death and damage.

10. The heart attack problem needs to be looked upon as the War at home. Citizens need to be patriotic in saving themselves as well as others.

11. The way to do this is to be Deputized into action. This is what the town needs in a (national) crisis.

12. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

No where is that more important than in the solution of the heart attack problem.