 Poster: A snowHead
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Lots of Americans do.
The onset of winter is apparently accompanied by people vigorously shifting snow from their front and back yards and dropping dead before they've had a chance to open the garage, enjoy the fruits of their labour, and drive away.
Perhaps shoveling snow is the most energetic thing that Americans ever do [no offence intended to US snowHeads - do you expend more energy having sex?].
Whatever. Anyone shovelling snow should read this article to avoid heart attacks, published by from Keloland TV. ["First TV station in South Dakota", est. 1953]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have also heard that it is bad to exert oneself (e.g. go for a run) when the temperature gets a bit below zero due to the increased risk of heart attack? A fit friend of mine had a heart attack in New York when going for a run in sub-zero temperatures early one morning during winter (WHY  ) ... the doctors told him that the low temperatures had significantly increased his risk of heart attack when exerting himself - something he would not normally have been at risk from? How much more so for an unfit person shovelling snow ...
Is there any evidence of people having heart attacks skiing? Having worn a heart rate monitor last year skiing to see the effect for myself, skiing certainly didn't raise my heart rate by much more than medium paced walking does.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If I have a heart attack shoveling snow it will be from mental stress not physical stress. With the local ski hills so close a big dump in town usually coincides bigger dump on the local mountain. Its stressful knowing that the longer you take clearing your sidewalks the further back in line you will be when they start the lifts.
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David Goldsmith,
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Perhaps shoveling snow is the most energetic thing that Americans ever do [no offence intended to US snowHeads - do you expend more energy having sex?].
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It probably depends a bit on the duration of the exertion. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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i think this study finally proves beyond doubt that a diet comprised solely of krspy kreme do-nuts may possibly, perhaps in certain circumstances, not be agreeable with sudden bouts of extreme execise ...
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I really think this is aimed at people who get out of breath walking up a few stairs. This is a prime warning sign that you are unfit possibly somehting more serious & probably should not do ANY strenuous exercise at all.
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Surely this only applies to the clinically obese or chronically decrepit. How many snowHeads fit these catagories?
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xyzpaul, Most of us after the xmas binge!!!
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Scarpa, LOL 
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Many elderly people experience strokes and heart attacks when standing at bus-stops in the cold. All to do with blood thickening due to the temperature. If you wrap up warmly, it reduces the risk.
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