The Disease Of Living

Abstract

Man smokes more cigarettes, drinks more, and eats more animal fat, is more obese, subject to more tensions, and exercises less than at any time in human history. He also suffers more frequently from atherosclerosis. The results of one of the most comprehensive studies of this debilitating disease ever undertaken, the Framingham Study, are now available. They suggest our way of life and most prominent way of dying are interrelated.