System of preventing heart attacks: how european preventive and reconditioning programs save lives


        SYSTEM OF PREVENTING HEART ATTACKS: HOW EUROPEAN PREVENTIVE AND RECONDITIONING PROGRAMS SAVE LIVES
The United States has the highest incidence of heart disease of all the civilized countries; Russia has the lowest! The reason is.' simple: We are looking for a cure—the Russians are concentrating on prevention. The governments of the Soviet Union and other European countries have built over 3,000 rural reconditioning centers where over five million people are treated each year. Tense, fatigued and malnourished workers and executives are given four weeks of reconditioning "treatment," which consists of proper health-building diet, environmental emotional relaxation, and systematic physical training. In addition, they are instructed in rules of good health, proper nutrition and the need for proper exercise, which will guide them when they return to their homes.
Russia also has a nation-wide program of regular physical exercises for everyone, beginning with the schools and continuing with the regular radio-conducted morning calisthenics and exercise breaks in offices and factories.
In West Germany, Switzerland and Austria there are similar preventive programs, financed by governments, insurance companies and private industries. Most heart reconditioning centers are located in the healthy environment of the Alps and the Black Forest of south Germany.
The results of these European preventive programs are there for all to see: the absentee figures among workers visiting these reconditioning centers in Germany have dropped nearly 70 percent in two years;1 and Russia, as we have seen, has the lowest incidence of heart disease in any civilized country.
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