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@edscoble
Hah.
That's the point, you're likely to get a heart attack if you overexerted yourself, i.e. suddenly decided to play football after remanding inactive for the last 20 years driving and sitting down typing in a computer.
Which is very different to keeping yourself fit by making your heart beat faster for at least half and hour to avoid the likeihood of overexerting your heart, i.e. exercise.
That bitty journalists decided that it can happen to everyone who ride to work at a general basis.