Next time someone tells you to count your calories or stop smoking...

[AgPete]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/2....ap/index.html

PowerBar founder Maxwell dies of a heart attack
Saturday, March 20, 2004 Posted: 7:01 PM EST (0001 GMT)

SAN ANSELMO, California (AP) -- Brian Maxwell, founder of the multimillion-dollar PowerBar empire and a former world-class marathon runner, has died of a heart attack, friends said. He was 51.

Maxwell collapsed Friday at a post office, and emergency personnel were unable to resuscitate him after workers called 911. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Maxwell and his wife Jennifer, a nutritionist, co-founded the popular energy bar company in 1986 and began selling PowerBars out of their kitchen.

Over the next decade, the Berkeley, California-based firm grew to $150 million in sales and 300 employees. In March 2000, the couple sold the company to Nestle SA for a reported $375 million.

Maxwell, who was born in London but grew up in Toronto, represented Canada in many international competitions as a long-distance runner. He was part of the 1980 Olympic team that boycotted the games in Moscow.

In 1977 Maxwell was ranked the No. 3 marathon runner in the world by Track and Field News.

Maxwell came up with the idea of an energy bar after he had to drop out of a 26.2-mile marathon race at the 21-mile mark -- about the point where experts say the body ceases burning carbohydrates and begins burning muscle tissue.

Maxwell is survived by his wife and five children.

[Taur]

LOL....Heart attach was probably stress related.

I started smoking around 19 and quit when I was 32. Most dissapointing thing I have ever done. All those little problems I blamed on smoking for all those years turn out to be symptoms of aging. Now I am stressing out about getting old.

So, what is better for the body. A high stress level or smoking? When I was smoking nothing would calm me down, or lower my stress level better than that little 5 minute break I took every hour. Peace and happiness delivered 5 minutes at a time.

[Franklinnoble]

That happens all the time to these hyperactive fitness nuts. It's always the fat-ass couch potatoes that live to be 114.

Where'd I put that box of twinkies?

[SackAttack]

If that's true, Franklin, most of us will live forever.

[tabucko]

Well, that explains it. He died at a post office, probably of starvation while waiting in the customer service line for 3 days.

[FBPro]

Originally Posted by tabucko

Well, that explains it. He died at a post office, probably of starvation while waiting in the customer service line for 3 days.

[sabotai]

That clinches it. I'm never going to quit smoking. Like Bill Hicks says "If only you smoked. We'd have the technology to save you. It's you people that are dying from nothing that are screwed."

[Ksyrup]

*Threadjack Alert*

Speaking of Bill Hicks, check this site out. Tremendously slow, but still well worth it:


hxxp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/%7Eadrisc/speed/bill2.htm

[sabotai]

404 Error.

[sachmo71]

Living a healthy life helps prevent heart disease, but there are no guarantees. Poor Mr. Powerbar.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by sabotai

404 Error.

Must REALLY be a private URL. Go to hxxp://www.shootspeed.com and click on the Bill Hicks Bootleg Archive at the top right. I'm also posting this in the comic quotes thread, for anyone interested.

[Sun Tzu]

Bill Hicks is the man.