Hello Sheptr2,

Good bless your family. My family has a short life span. I am 42 and all my grandparents were deceased by the time I was born. My grandfather was the last to go, he was 77.

You need to find out if your father was obese, had high cholesterol, High blood pressure and what his diet was. Did he exercise?

I can tell you that Heart Disease can strike anyone at anytime. Even thought the dr.s say diet and exercise are the key to a healthy heart, you can't believe any of that. What it does is possibley lowers your risk of heart disease.

I have friends that are extremley overweight, don't eat healthy, don't exercise and have lower blood pressure then me, their cholesterol is lower then mine, and i go to the gym 4 nights a week and do aerobics. Try to figure that out. I am about 40lbs overweight that is why i work out. My bp is 120/80, and my total cholesterol is 182.

I would also suggest if you do start working out take it slow because you can stress the heart out and that can cause a heart attack too.

So it seems like to me, if you eat healthy, meaning fruits and vegetables and workout you have a better chance of not getting heart disease.

I would first go see your family physician and get a complete physical and also ask to see a cardiologist and have him run some test before you start working out to rule out anything that is associated with the heart. Don't let your family physician tell you that you are healthy and do not need to see a cardiologist, this is your body and you want to make sure that you and your heart is healthy enough to start a workout plan. Ask the cardiologist to do a angiogram, this will show everything.

Good Luck,

Kathy