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0 pointslbrito4mo ago0 comments

I don't like this kind of content. The author might have a personal motivation for it, but for the general public, it's just more mental load.

We are all going to die one day.

When I was younger, I would fret over this kind of article. Great, one more thing I have to worry about. Now I just mostly ignore it. It's impossible otherwise. If I dedicate hours and days and months to all the heart best practices, what about when the liver, esophagus, kidney, bladder, brain articles come out?

We all know the good practices. Don't be a dumbass. Don't drink too much, exercise and so on. Besides that, I'm very much going to be reactive, as the article cautions against. I just don't have time or mental energy to do otherwise.

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bbor4mo ago

I share your general emotional reaction, but to be fair, heart disease is far and away more important than other type of disease. More people die of it in the US than die of all cancers combined: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

bwfan1234mo ago

> We all know the good practices. Don't be a dumbass

In theory yes, but in practice we are all dumbasses to some extent.

I used to have your attitude until I saw a friend die of a heart attack at an early age - and it appeared to me that he would have survived if he had an indication. So, now I have changed my attitude to one of more data does not hurt.

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