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	Jim Fixx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Best known as Jim Fixx, he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging.
		Fixx, a New Yorker, was a graduate of Oberlin College.
		Fixx died at the age of 52 of a massive heart attack, during his daily run, on Route 15 in Hardwick, Vermont.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Fixx (676 words)

	You can't run from heredity
		Skeptics of Fixx's gospel said the man was a victim of his own compulsion, that in the end it was the running that had killed him.
		It was clear, for instance, that Fixx had a strong family history of heart disease: His father had a heart attack at 35 and died of another one at 43.
		"Jim Fixx was running against his genes, and today we would put him on statin drugs and watch him very closely," says Dr. Nancy Lane, a University of California at San Francisco rheumatologist who studies the effects of exercise.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20020205hnoquickfixx.asp (335 words)

	JogBlog: Running with Jim
		Fixx's eulogies about the positive health benefits of running struck a chord at a time when there was a burgeoning interest in personal health, fitness and nutrition.
		Fixx was 52 when he collapsed and died of a massive heart attack on 20th July 1984 while on a seven-kilometre run on US Highway 15 at Hardwick, Vermont.
		At the time of his death Fixx was running an average of 60 miles every week, his weight was down to a healthy 159lbs and he had given up smoking.
	www.millwalkhouse.co.uk /2006/01/running-with-jim.asp (844 words)

	Jim Fixx
		James F. Fixx was born on April 23, 1932, he was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running[?].
		In his books and on television talk shows he often talked abort how he jogged an average of 60 miles every week on the basis that the physical exercise considerably increased the average human being's life expectancy.
		On July 20, 1984, while out jogging, 52-year-old Jim Fixx collapsed and died of a massive heart attack.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ji/Jim_Fixx.html (148 words)

	Obituaries of Famous People who might be alive for a Heart Scan
		Jim F Fixx 1932 - 1984, (although Jim lived in the pre-EBT and pre-statin era, it seems appropriate to put his obituary first) 52-year-old Jim Fixx collapsed while out jogging July 20, 1984 and died of a massive heart attack.
		Jim's father died of a heart attack at age 43 and Jim's cholesterol levels was above 250 mg/dl.
		Jim Cantalupo 1944 - 2004, the 60 year old chairman and CEO of McDonalds, died of a suddenly on April 19th from an apparent heart attack at a McDonald's convention in Orlando, Fla..
	www.newportbodyscan.com /Preventable_Deaths.htm (1399 words)

	Dick Biggs Employee Training Programs: Work/Life Balance
		If the Fixx name is starting to jog your memory (groan), you may remember that, at age fifty-two, he dropped dead of a heart attack while running.
		The autopsy of Fixx revealed the heart of an unhealthy man. He had severe blockage of his coronary arteries, scar tissue indicating at least three minor heart attacks before the one that killed him, and an unusually enlarged heart.
		Ironically, Fixx was at the famed Cooper Clinic in Dallas six months prior to his death and declined a stress test that could have saved his life.
	www.biggspeaks.com /balance.htm (802 words)

	Active.com - The legacy of Jim Fixx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But the studies are old, preceding even Jim Fixx's death, and reflect very few incidents: 10 in Rhode Island, 9 in Seattle.
		Jim Fixx may have done just that, given the fact that his father died of a heart attack at age 43, and he survived nine years longer to age 52.
		John Fixx said that on the anniversary of his father's death, he might take a long run around Tod's Point in Old Greenwich, a favorite course described by Jim Fixx in The Complete Book of Running.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=11038&sidebar=17&category (702 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Exercise & Fitness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perhaps the highest profile running death was that of Jim Fixx, the journalist-turned-fitness guru who was credited with giving birth to the first running boom in the 1970s.
		Fixx was an overweight smoker before he took up running.
		Fixx was 52 when he dropped dead of a heart attack while on a seven-kilometre run in July 1984.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/exercise_fitness/exercise_death.html (940 words)

	JIM FIXX FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James F. Fixx (April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was the author of the 1977 best-selling book, ''The Complete Book of Running''.
		Ironically, it transpired that Fixx died at the age of 52 of a massive heart attack while jogging on a street in Vermont with good shade.
		Given Fixx's slovenly lifestyle until he took up running, many argued that it prevented him from dying years before.
	www.factagent.com /?req=jim_fixx (430 words)

	1to1vitamins.com: Advanced Vitamins and Supplements from Dr. Cinque
		Skeptics of Fixx's jogging gospel said the man was a victim of his own compulsion, that in the end it was the running that had killed him.
		"Jim Fixx was running against his genes, and today we would put him on statin drugs and watch him very closely," says Dr. Nancy Lane, a UC San Francisco rheumatologist who studies the effects of exercise.
		Speculation aside, doctors say the larger lesson of Fixx's death has to do with the limitations of exercise as the key to long life.
	www.1to1vitamins.com /news/2002/artl5045.html (727 words)

	Jim Fixx: Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze...
		Jim Fixx: Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze...
		Jim Fixx: Author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze of the 1970s.
		His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% clogged, another was 80% obstructed, and a third was 70% blocked....and that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death.
	www.jokes2go.com /stories/19236.html?3 (115 words)

	Who are you kidding? Self-deception may help you avoid some of life's anxieties, but it doesn't always lead to blue ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jim Fixx, the man who made running an obsession, died of a heartattack while on his daily jog.
		Fixx knew he was at risk for heart disease: His father had died of heart trouble at the age of 43.
		The Jim Fixx-type denial of early warning signs is seen in many people at risk for heart disease, particularly in more aggresive people sometimes classified as the Type A personality.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_v21/ai_4724961 (867 words)

	O Legado de Jim Fixx
		Fixx escreveu O Guia Completo de Corrida, o qual na época de sua publicação, em 1977, foi o maior best-seller não-ficção de todos os tempos.
		Porém esses estudos são antigos, precedendo até a morte de Jim Fixx, e refletem somente alguns incidentes: 10 em Rhode Island e 9 em Seattle.
		Jim Fixx pode ter feito justamente isso, considerando o fato que seu pai morreu de ataque cardíaco aos 43 anos de idade, e que ele sobreviveu 9 anos a mais até aos 52 anos.
	www.copacabanarunners.net /jim-fixx.html (764 words)

	Road ID
		The FIXX ID, named in honor of Jim Fixx, is the first ID that we ever offered.
		Years went into the design of the FIXX ID so that it was not only fun to wear, but also of jewelry quality.
		This Road ID was named "the FIXX" to honor and recognize Jim Fixx for his many contributions to the art of running.
	www.roadid.com /fixx_learnmore.asp (1094 words)

	Copyright © 2000 by The Voice of Prophecy
		Then the news came out that Jim Fixx had already had three other coronary attacks in the weeks before his death.
		Fixx was really robbed of maybe 20 or 30 years by those clogged arteries.
		But about a decade later, friends of Jim began to admit that his lifestyle actually was anything but healthy.
	www.vop.com /previous_broadcasts/2001/april/01183.html (1346 words)

	Competitive Enterprise Institute
		Fixx was a jogging guru who ran 60 miles a week.
		But almost 20 years ago this summer, 52-year-old Jim Fixx died of a heart attack...
		The tragic irony of Fixx's death would be compounded, however, if we failed to learn an important lesson from it: Even actions that have risks can make us safer.
	www.cei.org /gencon/019,03676.cfm (940 words)

	James A Corea archive page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While Jim Corea was on the air a website was created to sell some of the health products and food supplements featured on his show.
		Jim saw several doctors but none was able to make the cough go away, and no one linked it to his heart.
		Jim knew the deck was stacked against him, his wife said, but did not obsess about it.
	www.phillytalkradioonline.com /archive/corea/james_corea.html (2451 words)

	Oldskooler Ramblings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I, too, found this incredibly funny and used his situation as a reason to not run, along with other scary running stories (such as a girl who was so addicted to the endorphin “high” you get while running that she ignored the pain of her shin splints and caused permanent damage, etc.).
		Lo and behold, some basic research turns up Jim Fixx’s autopsy, which indicates that he neglected his cholesterol which caused 95% blockage of one artery, 85% of another, and 50% of a third, eventually causing a massive heart attack.
		Jim Fixx is dead, MECA is long gone, and I have little scruples when it comes to 22-year-old software.
	trixter.wordpress.com /page/2 (1362 words)

	According to Jim - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		Nick was the guy that Jim set Dana up with, and it turned out everytime she brought him over to Jim's house, he flirted with Cheryl, which made Jim jealous.
		Jim is terrified that Cheryl will find out that indeed he proposed to her years before he met Cheryl.
		Jim begged Andy to help him during dinner to stop her, no matter what it took from telling the proposal story.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Television/According-to-Jim-10002.html (1512 words)

	Jim Fix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jim Fixx died in 1984 (ironically his arteries were plugged with too much cholesterol).
		He left a legacy of thousands of joggers and runners that he introduced to the pleasures and benefits of jogging and the sport of running.
		When Jim first took up running in the 1960's, he weighed 220 lbs.
	www.simpsonassociatesinc.com /fixxbook.html (85 words)

	Death in the Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jim Fixx, one of the original proselytizers of our sport, is now more famous for how he died than anything he accomplished while alive.
		Although a couple of non-runners invoked Jim Fixx, nobody took Sokol’s death lightly.
		Jim Hage is a contributing editor to Running Times and a sports reporter for the Washington Post.
	www.rrca.org /publicat/sm98deth.html (969 words)

	Running Past - Jim Fixx and his Famous Red Shoes
		In 1977 Jim Fixx wrote "The Complete Book of Running" and the running boom was launched into a higher orbit.
		Race fields swelled with the newly converted and the marathon went from an oddity to the holy grail of runners everywhere.
		Jim posed for the cover himself, sporting a pair of red nylon Onitsuka Tiger racing flats.
	www.runningpast.com /jim_fixx_shoes.htm (460 words)

	The Disappearing High
		Fixx, you might recall, was one of an elite group of characters given the lion's share of credit for sparking the then burgeoning running movement.
		Fixx claimed, among other things, that running was a pathway not only to health, but also great feelings of euphoria, or "runner's high." This high, Fixx and others maintained, was available not just from illegal and other drugs, but from your own endorphins, emitted naturally by your brain during a hard run.
		Fixx paused dramatically at one point in his speech and held up for all to see a pair of pants he used to wear -- BEFORE he found salvation in running.
	www.seekwellness.com /wellness/reports/2002-05-28.htm (1315 words)

	TIME.com: Why Joggers Are Running Scared -- Aug. 6, 1984 -- Page 1
		Fixx's 1977 best seller, The Complete Book of Running, converted the masses with rhapsodic sermons on the physical and psychological benefits of his sport.
		Fixx was fond of noting that regular aerobic workouts generally diminish the risk of heart dis ease; cholesterol levels, blood pressure, body weight and pulmonary function have all been shown to be positively influenced by exercise.
		Because the buildup of fatty material in the arteries is usually a slow process, Fixx probably had at least some coronary damage before he took up running at the age 35, and his history of smoking and be overweight probably contributed to problem.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,921748,00.html (553 words)

	Excessive perspiration during exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jim Fixx, was very overweight when he started running, so he may have already sown the seeds of cardiac failure.
		Regarding Jim Fixx, I do not remember that he was as old as 57.
		Fixx died at the age of 52 of a massive heart attack, after his daily run, on Route 15 in Hardwick, Vermont.
	www.medhelp.org /Forums/cardio/messages/35819.html (3168 words)

	CELC The Fourth Sunday in Advent
		Jim Fixx was only 52 years old when he died.
		There, present in him, Jim Fixx had what he could not out run, a family disease that was silent until the moment of his death.
		Know that the Lord is with you, even if you cannot sense God’s presence in you, just as Jim Fixx did not know of the heart disease that was within him.
	personal.cfw.com /~celcsta/Sermons/12-18-05.htm (916 words)

	You can run, but monitor your work
		Jim Fixx began running at age 35 during the running boom of the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
		Fixx and other running advocates, including many in the medical profession, recommended running as a healthy way of life by developing cardiovascular endurance and curing heart disease.
		Fixx had high cholesterol and other symptoms he ignored.
	www.syracuse.com /sports/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/114535185021670.xml&coll=1 (610 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Search Results
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		The Fixx Message Board - The End Is The Beginning Is The End Song...
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/websearch?qry=jim+fixx+last+days&safe=on&as_qdr=all&lr=&base=170&num=10 (408 words)

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