Comments on: Could Russert's Death Have Been Prevented?

Tim Russert Recently Passed A Stress Test, But It Couldn't Predict His Heart Attack

[talkingham]

I got started looking into this oil/fats mess back when I started a low-carb regime about 12 years ago before it was a fad.

Turns out that all this corn, soy and numerous other veggie oils have some pretty lousy characteristics, the least appetizing of which is the fact that they go rancid incredibly fast.

There is great reading on the subject of animal fats versus the edible oils industry at the Weston A Price Foundation web site, which includes articles by Mary Enig and others who disagree with many aspects of nutrition that have have been marketed to us under the name of low fats. Really nice to have a perspective that the bought and sold news media will never provide.

A friend of mine recently nearly died from a clot caused by one of these cholesterol reducing drugs, unfortunately the news media are too busy selling these drugs to ask any real questions about the philosophy and lack of any viable data to really support their use.

Most of the fats data in this country is totally skewed by the fact that trans fats were never broken into a separate category in any of the many studies that are now used in Public Health policy, no accident since the edible oils industry owns half of Congress. Can u say Archer Daniels Midland Corp?

[jerr11]

Good question!

Could the Iraq war have been prevented?

Why didn''t Russert ask the hard questions?

Was he intimidated by the neocons like the rest of the spineless press?

Shouldn''t his program have be renamed "Meet the Neocon Propagandists?"

[edwzar]

Please people. The time has passed for a question such as this... Let''s remember him for who he was and how he touched soo so many of us.. God Speed Tim!!

[gwagener]

Several posts suggest it was his time to go. You cannot possibly know that. lorenzen6 is right. A defibrillator can revive some people in cardiac arrest. I do not know if Russert could have been saved by a defibrillator, or if someone had done CPR on him. The article does not say.

[oktexchic]

talkingham ... how do you know so much about this ... what is your source?

[credibility2]

What hasn''t been fully explored with the sudden death of Russert was all of the stress in the weeks leading up to his death. His son graduated from college. He placed his father in an assisted living home. He was traveling and vacationing heartily in Italy with his wife and son; the trip probably also included dining on perhaps less than healthy cuisine, given his health issues. He returns home one day ahead of doing the videotaping of his weekly program, presumably with no proper rest and recovery from the long cramped flight and acclimation to the time difference. Russert clearly was pushing himself beyond reasonableness and wasn''t giving himself sufficient recovery time and at a healthy pace. Work is fine, but when combined with other tangential factors, it''s not worth the stress and pressure some of us place ourselves under. All of this shows too that Russert was trying to do too much in too confined a space of time. I think his stress and his work contributed immensely to his too early a demise.

[gwagener]

What I want to know is if he could have been revived if they had a portable defibrillator or if someone had done CPR on him. Sure, if he had lost weight and exercised more he might have lived longer, but the question not addressed is, "Could adequate emergency medical treatment have kept him alive?"

[georgew1956]

leave it to cbs to carie on the pain just to get a story on the wire , this is scum reporting.

[oktexchic]

One report I read said he Russert died due to high cholesterol. Yet I listen to experts who say the cholesterol is not the problem.

GrammaWhamma,
you seem to know a lot about this .. where did you get your information? I''m trying to help my mom be protected, but she listens to her doctors who have her on all kinds of meds, including Lipitor for cholesterol.

[talkingham]

Well after 30 years of heart specialists suggesting men stop eating butter in favor artery clogging trans fat loaded margarines it''s hard to tell how many men and women have died from the low-fat anti-animal fats edible oil lobby that owns half of Congress.

Do you realize it took a quarter of a century since nutritionist Mary Enig''s testimony about transfats was cut from the Congressional record for this travesty to be revealed.

There are quite a few people being killed by these "anti" cholesterol drugs that cause the plaque which is actually plugging gaps in many people''s artery walls and heart walls. When you remove the plaque you get a rupture or blockage.

The "low-fat" rancid edible vegetable oils industry is doing a great job.

It''s amazing how many incredibly fat people you see eating all this low fat slop.