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A heart attack survivor, Green, 61, uses comedy to convince audience members to take better care of their heart health. “People come up to me and say, ‘You don’t look fat or out of shape: If you had a heart attack, maybe I could have a heart attack, too,’” he said. “When they ask me what to do, I always recommend they go see their doctor.” – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: CPR Classes | Comedian makes heart attack a laughing matter

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CPR Classes / Comedian makes heart attack a
laughing matter
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Few jokes are off limits to comedian Bob Green
even ones about fatal heart disease. If you die
of a heart attack, people say you died of
natural causes, like your soul rises up and
goes to Whole Foods, he said. Its like you
died a gluten-free, organic death. Green isnt
being insensitive. Hes being proactive. A
heart attack survivor, Green, 61, uses comedy to
convince audience members to take better care of
their heart health. People come up to me and
say, You dont look fat or out of shape If you
had a heart attack, maybe I could have a heart
attack, too, he said. When they ask me what to
do, I always recommend they go see their
doctor. Its a piece of advice that Green
himself ignored in 2014, a decision that almost
cost him his life.
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The grandson of a Jewish deli owner, Green grew
up in New York City eating corned beef,
pastrami, blintzes, noodle kugel, ice cream the
worst things you could eat for your heart, he
said. Green was bullied because of his weight as
a kid. I swore that as an adult, I was going to
be in incredible shape and be thinner than they
were. That was going to be my revenge. He stuck
to that vow, exercising and maintaining a healthy
weight even as those around him didnt. His
mother died of a heart attack at 64 a year
later, his brother died the same way at age
48. Even though heart disease ran in his family,
Green figured he wasnt at serious risk because
he worked out, ate healthy foods and got regular
checkups. Then one day in 2014 he began vomiting
during a workout with his personal trainer in Los
Angeles, where hed moved in the 1980s for a
career in marketing. His trainer told him to go
see a doctor, but Green argued that hed had a
physical three months earlier and the results
were normal. He was probably just dehydrated, he
thought.
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Three weeks later, as Green was riding his
bicycle to a Gregg Allman concert, he felt
pinching pains in his chest and was forced to
stop pedaling every few minutes because he was so
winded. Still, he went to the concert and rode
his bike home. It wasnt until the next morning,
sitting in his longtime doctors office, that he
realized how sick he was. My doctor gave me an
EKG and his face was in a state of panic, said
Green, who was immediately transported to
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. When Green got to
the hospital, doctors discovered his arteries
were so clogged that he needed an immediate
quadruple-bypass surgery, which was performed
successfully that same day.
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They said if Id waited two hours to come to the
hospital, I might have died, he said. Today,
with a new lease on life, Green has become an
avid yoga practitioner and has learned to avoid
stress whenever possible. He volunteers at
Cedars-Sinai and with the American Heart
Association, performing comedy routines about his
heart attack at AHA events. He also performs
random acts of kindness around town, helping
elderly people with their luggage or buying a
meal for people who are homeless. Bobs always
been passionate and energetic, but I think going
through a life challenge like this has made him
more resilient and reflective, said his longtime
friend Glen Friedman. Its made him very
determined to make a difference and give back.
Green agrees, saying hes a stronger, better
person now than he was before his heart attack.
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Ive faced a lot of things in my life that
knocked me down, like divorce and deaths in the
family. But this heart attack didnt knock me
down, he said. It lifted me up. Learn more
about CPR Classes. Bergenfield, NJ, Jersey City,
NJ, Livingston, NJ, Queens, New York. Source
newsarchive.heart.org
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