2/15 Laura Bush gives tips on avoiding a heart attack...

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of
remarks by First Lady Laura Bush regarding American Heart Month:

Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, North Carolina


...There is perhaps no better time to talk about the importance of good heart
health than around Valentine's Day. It's a great day to tell someone you love
them and that you want them to be healthy. And actually, that's what happens
across the United States. Women tell their husbands that they love them --
(laughter) -- and if any husbands suffer any symptoms of a heart attack, the
women are the ones to make sure, the wives are the ones to make sure they get
right to the emergency room. But it's time for husbands to tell women the
same thing, and for each of us to tell our sisters and our mother and our
friends that heart disease also affects women, and that one of the reasons
more women die than men now every year from heart disease in the United States
is because women wait. They think that it's just anxiety or reflux or
something like that, and they don't really realize that they need to get to
the emergency room just as fast as they'd send their husband to the emergency
room.
February is American Heart Month, and I've joined the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute's Heart Truth campaign to share this message with women
across the country, which is that heart disease is the leading cause of death
among women in the United States....

This is the good news, though. The good news is that heart disease is
treatable, and it's often preventable. Studies show that by eating a healthy
diet, exercising, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and visiting your
doctor to find what your risk factors are, women can reduce their risk for
heart disease by as much as 82 percent. The sad news is, though, that only
about three percent of American women actually do every one of those things --
eat a healthy diet, not smoke, exercise, see your doctor to see what your risk
factors are, and maintain a healthy weight. And by healthy, you know what
that means. (Laughter.) A lower weight, actually.

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[REP]

1. And Don't Let Dick Cheney Shoot You In The Face

[Bluebear]

2. Thank you, thank you.

I just set 'em up, folks :toast:

[REP]

3. It Had To Be Done

It's so important to let people know the dangers of Dick Cheney shooting them in the face.

[sarge43]

9. This is why REP only does one show a day now

:rofl:

[cornermouse]

4. You know, if I were in charge of an organization, I really don't think

I would want Laura representing it. I suppose its quite possible though, that they might have been paid from Bush's PR budget to let Laura appear and make that speech.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Wow, with that mad-eyed, crap-eating grin,

would you want her as front woman for anything remotely serious? I swear she looks more & more like she's overdosed on Prozac. SG

:silly:

[madrchsod]

7. do a search for her pictures

during the king funeral...the woman hasn`t a shred of humanity.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. You mean the "swallowed a lemon" pic

of her behind Carter & Lowery? What a contrast with this med-inspired grimace, meant to be a smile. SG

[madrchsod]

6. i had a fucking heart attack

and i wasn`t able to call the ambulance so my wife had to. she`s so dam loaded on pills it`s a wonder they let her out the door....

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I wasn't able to call either!

My wife was walking out the door when mine started and I asked her to wait. I'd be dead if she'd been gone.