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Published August 13, 2008 06:31 pm - I started getting interested in a healthier life back when son Derek was born, more than 28 years ago. Music might be the best medicine for what ails you A ROBERT LEBZELTER column for Aug. 17, 2008 Star Beacon I started getting interested in a healthier life back when son Derek was born, more than 28 years ago. Healthy living was never something I planned to get into. I just sort of fell into it. Even after taking up running, I found my cholesterol was too high. The doctor, like many do, decided the answer was probably drugs. He said the cholesterol reading might be a fluke, but if not, Bob meets better living through pharmaceuticals. It was a plan I didn't particularly like. Who knows what those drugs will do to you down the line? So I took a different approach. I had read enough about how bad meat is for you, so I dumped meat from the diet and my cholesterol dropped. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., a retired Cleveland Clinic surgeon, went so far as say after 40 years of opening people up that heart disease does not need to exist. It is the result of animal fat and a plant-based diet will make you 'heart-attack proof.' Unfortunately, most people won't adhere to a plant-based diet, even if it means no heart ailments, minimizes cancer, stroke and will keep you from having to take all kinds of expensive drugs the rest of your life. So what do you do if you can't give up your slice of carcass? The answer happens to be my other big interest: the Rolling Stones. Yes, despite Keith Richards' looks, despite Ron Wood continually going into rehab when not chasing 20-year-old girls, the Stones can be good for you. At least they were good for Sam Carter, a retired baker who lives in England. Carter, 60, apparently didn't take too good a care of himself. Bet he ate shepherd's pie or one of those other English dishes. One day he fell into a coma. They couldn't wake the guy up. His family huddled around. 
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