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Jim Fixx

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Jim Fixx
Author of The Complete Book of Running, a bestseller, who symbolized the fitness craze


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American Jim Fixx died while performing an activity which he had popularised by demonstrating its health benefits.
Jim Fixx, author of the 1970s best-seller The Complete Book Of Running, died in 1980 of a heart attack while jogging.
Connor cued into the fact that I was a runner who was hesitant to heed his doctor's advice and told me the story of Jim Fixx, a running advocate from the 1970s who dropped dead of a heart attack while jogging in 1984.
 
 
 
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