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Male Over 60
Interview 15  

Interview 15

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background:

Brief outline:Discovered after taking blood pressure at an exhibition.


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Discusses how difficult it is to lose weight and to change diet.

 



I think I was amused by how difficult it is to alter one's life style. I have always exercised quite a bit, I play tennis and am fairly active, I bike around, and I enjoy my food. I am not particularly overweight. I am 6ft 1 3\4 and I weigh about 14 stone, and they are quite compatible- slightly overweight but not huge amounts. So it wasn't as if I was bulging out in every direction, and could lose stone after stone, and that would make things all right. So I did what I could only it wasn't much when it came down to it. I probably could have tried harder. I was trying to lose weight and I did lose weight. It did have some effect on the blood pressure when my weight came down. I tried to give up salt. I actually use one of these potassium products - instead of sodium chloride, potassium chloride containing products. I am not sure how good they are. I never really did check up whether it works. Then again this is where the non scientific side of me as a doctor says 'well I don't care I am at least trying to do something'.
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