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I have had heart disease for about 10 years. In the very early stages, when they suspect they’ve got a problem with a cholesterol level in my blood that’s heading towards high or even very high, I turn in bed for a few minutes and then start exercising.

I put on my weightlifting clothes and check my pulse, to see if it’s fluttering away because I’m trying too hard to get my heart going. Then I wear an electrode on my chest that measures the electrical impulses from my heart to see if they’re accelerating. And finally, I check to see if I’m loosening the tension in my chest and breathing out properly. That’s what I do every evening. vlxx

I have a son, who is now 14, and I also have a daughter who is 11. My weightlifting clothes are comfortable and easy to clean. sextop I take them every day. I keep the heart monitor by my bed. When I am thinking about exercising, I listen to an exercise programme on my iPod and I use my body to hear my heart beat.

When I get up in the morning, I place my little plastic heart monitor in my right hip and I play a bit of yoga music and begin to feel my heart beat. As I practise breathing, my internal clock ticks forward.

When I get to work I walk to the bus stop every day so I can check my heart rhythm. The rhythm is always the same – a heart that sounds like church bell. I take this as a sign that I’m healthy, that my heart is getting healthier. viet69 Sometimes I drive into the city and I wear the special heart monitoring vest and I’ll keep listening to the new Danish zither or something and put my feet up. It’s very relaxing.

My message is: Take good care of your heart. It’s an important organ. I encourage other people to keep a heart monitor close to their bed so they can feel it.

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Soleil Moon Frye is a yogi and fashion designer. There are many places you can find the heart monitor. You can buy one through Sky Online.

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After the magical glamour of Tutankhamun, the sensational bedroom pictures of Kim Kardashian and the rest of the Kardashian Krew, it’s hard to imagine that this same year can see the joyous travails of Barbara Windsor – all these flesh-flashing fans projecting their own insecurities on the woman on the receiving end.

The stars of 1972 were cast in the role of girl in distress, portrayed by the women of British television. That year also marked the highest-rated US and UK seasons of US soap “Dallas”. The show’s plot was essentially a showcase for the hormonal issues that flashed on to the screens of women of a certain age, particularly those who went topless: “Dallas” satuates its girls – the heirs to the oil-rich O.H.E dynasty, the matriarch and former church-going woman, J.R. Ewing – as either fantastic warm-hearted chewin’ heads of red or monstrous liars. (I couldn’t help but see some of my family members’ exact ages, a sharp contrast to the very different lives of the Ewings, Ms J.R. and Lulu, the family’s stripper housekeeper). So, a little iconography of that year – Dallas and its last season – pulled at my breast-shaped heart strings a bit.

I love a good wardrobe item from the mid-seventies, the jorts or schoolgirl sweater, a thing I found fascinating then and, now, in equal measure, has these days. I think back on the fifty years we’ve all lived through since that glorious, legendary era of daytime shows and fictional families comes to me, and I can’t help but be genuinely choked by nostalgia, similar to seeing a young “David” today with his hair all curl and donut and flares instead of wearing his trademark trilby (and never dressing up to play the part of Humphrey Bogart, either.)

The series “My Two Dads” (1976), which ran for 24 episodes on the first day of the rest of my life, had Barbara Windsor’s Miss Featherstone tell her distressed and recently widowed actor mother, Nancy Cotton, a hotel housekeeper, that her mother “will never find what she wants again: a bit part on television.”

Carol Vorderman’s Dagenham hero lost the daughter she’d had with her first husband, Denis Lawrence. Any other women would meet this in their mid-to-late 40s with limited prospects, grief and self-pity. jav But Vorderman flew off from her role as bright but neurotic lingerie designer Rosie to accompany her pop idol husband Peter Jones to Puerto Rico, where she has long-running celebrity status, (he’s one of the world’s best selling musicians!) in the hope of finding the love of her life. On her honeymoon, she buys a pair of trendy white sleeveless jumpsuits and hits the Las Vegas fashion scene, where her well-dressed friend, her lover Stuart Hall, discusses the joys of dressing this way. tuoi69 He even pitches in to help her pick a celebrity to interview, Ronald Reagan, who had left her one-time fancy dress company.

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In a world without Twitter or social media, or even the internet, I couldn’t possibly share my grief over another’s misfortune, or even best friend’s coming-out or success.

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