ROCHESTER MINNESOTA CORONARY CLUB

WELCOME

We are a community group who have experienced heart attacks and who have lived to tell about it.

We have formed a support group, in the form of a non-profit organization, to help us learn more about the most vital organ that we have, our heart, and to learn how to take better care of it using the resources available to us here in Rochester, Minnesota.

The resources in our town are plentiful. We are fortunate to have access to the Mayo Clinic and its world-class medical facilities. We thus have access to some pretty incredible neighbors who will lecture us, educate us, and encourage us to make lifestyle changes that we must adopt in order to live healthy lives.

To those of you who have discovered us and who have also experienced trouble with your heart we invite you to join us at our monthly meetings for education, social activity, and to participate in activities such as our walking program. You do not have to be a Rochester resident to join us. We have members who live in nearby communities who meet with us whenever the weather and their schedule allows them to. You are encouraged to join us for prevention of heart attack - indeed prevention is far preferable to treatment.

To those of you who came here by mistake, we encourage you to poke around this web site and to learn something about your heart and how to take good care of it with diet, exercise, and lifestyle change that will help you avoid the damage that arises from a heart attack. You are lucky because you have a chance to avoid having a heart attack. Please use our web site to benefit your health.

 Heart trouble happens to people of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Sometimes it is an inherited genetic problem, sometimes it came from years of eating and drinking what are now known to be forbidden fruit. But that wasn’t always the case. For many years practices that were thought to be okay were encouraged by our society but are now known to cause heart trouble. A good example is smoking.

So please use this web site and if you have suggestions for improving it please forward them to use at the mail-link below:

mailto: webmaster@RochesterCoronaryClub.org

In all cases, when health questions arise, ask your health care professional for advice and guidance.

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