Now take a moment to realize that during the time it took you to read that paragraph, an artery in the heart of roughly one more American clogged up, cutting off blood flow downstream and starting a rapid process of tissue and cell death. This process is better known, of course, as a heart attack. By the time you finish reading this page, four Americans will have had a heart attack, and another four will have fallen prey to stroke or heart failure.2 Over the next twenty-four hours, 3,000 Americans will have heart attacks,2 roughly the same number of people who perished in the terrorist attacks
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