Saw this in the new edition of New Man Magazine.....
Talking the Walk -
After heart trouble nearly claimed his life, Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes found his personal key to good health
By Dave Urbanski
From the time he was a kid, Todd Starnes wanted to be a journalist. At 13 he became the staff cartoonist for a small weekly paper outside New Orleans where his family lived.
His journalism career eventually led him to the West Coast, where he became a news anchor and senior reporter for KFBK in Sacramento, Calif.
It had been a whirlwind ride for Starnes. Everything was falling into place.
Except for one minor detail. Starnes was dying. Only he didn't know it.
"Over a period of a couple of years I'd been putting on weight," Starnes says, adding that at 300 pounds in May 2005 he carried twice the weight his body should have been supporting.
"I was covering a hostage standoff at a hotel in Sacramento, and I came down with a bad cough -- so bad
that I headed to the emergency room.
"There they found that my heart was enlarged, and my aortic valve, the main one, was beginning to close up. As a result my heart wasn't getting enough blood."
Imminent death was the furthest thing from Starnes' mind. Sensing a story, Starnes' news director at KFBK approached him with the idea that he put together an audio journal of his experience.
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Talking the Walk -
After heart trouble nearly claimed his life, Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes found his personal key to good health
By Dave Urbanski
From the time he was a kid, Todd Starnes wanted to be a journalist. At 13 he became the staff cartoonist for a small weekly paper outside New Orleans where his family lived.
His journalism career eventually led him to the West Coast, where he became a news anchor and senior reporter for KFBK in Sacramento, Calif.
It had been a whirlwind ride for Starnes. Everything was falling into place.
Except for one minor detail. Starnes was dying. Only he didn't know it.
"Over a period of a couple of years I'd been putting on weight," Starnes says, adding that at 300 pounds in May 2005 he carried twice the weight his body should have been supporting.
"I was covering a hostage standoff at a hotel in Sacramento, and I came down with a bad cough -- so bad
that I headed to the emergency room.
"There they found that my heart was enlarged, and my aortic valve, the main one, was beginning to close up. As a result my heart wasn't getting enough blood."
Imminent death was the furthest thing from Starnes' mind. Sensing a story, Starnes' news director at KFBK approached him with the idea that he put together an audio journal of his experience.
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[EDIT-post truncated because originating material appears to be copyprotected. Unauthorized use of copyrighted content is in violation of Radio-Info's TOS.]