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"Claire Petersky" wrote in message hlink.net... "Maggie" wrote in message om... "Claire Petersky" wrote in message thlink.net... Claire....How did you get so smart? Genetics. Thanks for asking. OK, I made the off-the-cuff remark, and since I posted it, I have had a few more thoughts about genetics. My maternal grandparents were both PhDs (my grandmother would have graduated summa cum laude, but the university officials thought it improper for a woman to graduate with higher honors than her husband, and so demoted her). On my father's side, Samuel Petersky went to McGill University, despite being a poor immigrant, and was the first Jewish physician in BC. So there's a certain amount of braininess from both sides of the family. But genetics can be a curse as well as a blessing. Sam Petersky and two of his brothers, and their parents, all died in their 50s of heart attacks. It's not that surprising that my dad, when warning signs cropped up when he was in his 50s, that he took the risk of heart attack seriously. One of the things he did, along with a change in diet, was to take up bicycling. Now, it may be that he got lucky with the genetics, but here he is in his late 70s, and although he doesn't bicycle anymore, he hasn't dropped dead yet. Me, I don't know if I got lucky in the genetics lottery or not. I seemed to inherit the brains. Maybe I inherited the dicky heart -- who knows? But even if I did, it's probably not such a bad thing to keep up the bicycling, don't you think? -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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