A stunning, gorgeous winter flight...

Snow shoveling is a major cause of heart attacks.

Any idea why? What is different about snow shoveling vs other kinds of
excercise?

Jose
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On 2005-12-08, Jose wrote:
Snow shoveling is a major cause of heart attacks.

Any idea why? What is different about snow shoveling vs other kinds of
excercise?

Probably because the people who die of heart attacks when snow
shovelling are getting the first exercise they have had all year (on top
of a probably already bad diet). I doubt if snow shovelling carries any
more risk for people in reasonable shape (apart from slipping on ice and
breaking bones, I suppose). I'd argue that the snow shovelling in that
case is not the cause of the heart attack - the heart attack is like the
latent image on a film, just waiting for something to develop it.

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I agree. Here is the scoop on snow shoveling safety

http://www.ext.nodak.edu/snow.htm

Hai Longworth

I agree. Here is the scoop on snow shoveling safety

http://www.ext.nodak.edu/snow.htm

They missed the big snow removal helper of spraying silicon on the
front AND back of a shovel blade so the snow doesn't stick.

Silicon spray on the augers and chutes also turbocharges snow blowers
and minimizes jamming with wet snow etc.........

On 8 Dec 2005 12:26:54 -0800, "nrp" wrote:

They missed the big snow removal helper of spraying silicon on the
front AND back of a shovel blade so the snow doesn't stick

Oooooohhhhh, that's a good one. I'll need it tonight, we're getting
about 7 inches of the stunning right now.

Corky Scott

nrp wrote:

Silicon spray on the augers and chutes also turbocharges snow blowers
and minimizes jamming with wet snow etc.........

Thanks. I'll be buying some this afternoon. Now if I can only get the SOB to
start! (I knew I shoulda bought the electric start model)

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