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Meet Patrick Pete: Rewriting a family history of heart disease and diabetes

Posted on October 15, 2008

I have a friend who sets two or three alarm clocks to be sure she doesn t oversleep. Sometimes it takes more than one wake -up call. At the young age of 39, Patrick Pete had already been diagnosed with diabetes, had surgery to place a stent in one of his arteries, and was being treated for high cholesterol. Then he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.As he was recovering from cancer surgery, Patrick had an A-ha moment. I realized that the way things were going, I probably didn t have a very long lifespan in front of me. I figured I could either get depressed, or take action. I...

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