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Show Utah Heart Association Director .- Guest Speaker for Athenaeum Mrs. Goeglein who was accompanied ac-companied by her sister, Mrs. Helen Holmes of Salt Lake City who has had hea rt surgery, showed two films-one "Eat to Your Heart's Content" and the other depicting heart action and symptoms of a heart attack. She passed out informational information-al recipe booklets: "The Way to a Man's Hearf and recipes for fat-controlled low cholesterol choles-terol meals.. ' DON ( 1 . SMIM: MRS. FLORENCE GOEGLEIN In 1924 six cardiologists, headed by Dr. Paul Dudley White, formetl a group which attempted to show people how NOT to have heart attacks. This led to the beginningof the American Amer-ican Heart Association which now is putting on what they term 'the greatest public health campaign cam-paign of all time." The Heart Association is unique in that most of the funds collected go toward research. Utah is acknowledged to have one of the finest cardiology centers cen-ters in the world; To counteract the ever-increasing numbers of heart attacks, at-tacks, they recommend a change in diet, more exercise and less stress in every -day living. Mrs. Florence Geoglein, program pro-gram director of the Utah Heart Association, was the guest speaker at Athenaeum Monday, March 26 and spoke of the-high. risk factors. She said high blood pressure, can be controlled by having regular medical check-, check-, ups; NO smoking is a MUST; she recommended avoidingall sat urated fats -particularly cocoanut oil. Counting calbries is helpful in weight control and exercise is absolutely neces-sary-REGULAR exercise-and she said that walking is the best exercise there is. |