Prevention: your solicitous guide to healthy and happy living.

Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, started in 1950, and published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The range of subjects include food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, cooking, and more. It was founded by J.I. Rodale. (wikipedia.org)

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Your heart will go on
From this issue of Prevention we start our Healthy Heart Campaign, which will bring you detailed plans of how to keep yourself and your family protected.

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FACES OF PREVENTION
FROM THE EDITOR

YOUR HEART WILL GO ON

There’s always one special person from your childhood you wish you had known better. Uncle G, my mother’s cousin, was the one for me. He was warm, loving, generous and full of zest.

Whenever he visited, our dull, tube-lit living room would turn festive. He looked smashingly handsome as he smoked his pipe and laughed his hearty laugh. He was the most good-hearted of all the children my mother grew up with in a large joint-family in Calcutta. Suddenly, just a couple of days after Durga Puja in 1979, he came back home and fell. He never got up. It was his heart: he had a massive attack which he did not survive. He was barely 40, the love and light of his wife and little daughter’s life.

Everyone else in the family was in shock too. This was the first time I knew grief.

It was also the first time I got really worried about people I loved. Powerless in the face of this thing called a heart attack, I wondered if it was really true that goodhearted people were more vulnerable.

Years have passed, heart care has been revolutionised. We have so many brilliant cardiologists. People from all over the world come to India for treatment. So much has changed, but heart diseases are still worrying. You and I are still vulnerable. Why? The Indian gene makes us four times more so than anybody else in the world. We need to watch out more than anybody else. We need to build defences that are absolutely fool-proof.

At Prevention we have made it our personal mission to take this message to each one of you. Starting this month, our Healthy Heart Campaign (pages 31, 63) will bring you detailed plans of how to keep yourself and your family protected. And it can be done!

Guess who is most hopeful? Uncle G’s daughter, who’s a cardiologist today. She’s got a degree abroad and is saving hearts at a cath lab in Calcutta.

Here’s to the good hearted!

SANGHAMITRA CHAKRABORTY
Editor

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