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...Autopsies of children killed in accidents, for example, have revealed fatty fibrous ) plaques clogging the coronary arteries of 15-year-olds and fatty deposits along the aortic walls of children as young as two or three. "We see a strong correlation between cholesterol and these lesions," says Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of the landmark Bogalusa Heart Study that monitored 12,000 children for 18 years. Moreover, youngsters in the U.S. have much higher cholesterol levels than do children in countries like Japan and China, where the diet stresses vegetables over meats and dairy products. In those nations heart disease...
...Berenson and others argue that cholesterol testing should be done on all U.S. children. They charge that limiting screening to youngsters in families with a history of high cholesterol or heart disease will miss as many as 50% of children with a serious cholesterol problem. Among the reasons: parents are often unaware of their own cholesterol level, and many children live in homes where either the parents are absent or where parents and even grandparents are so young that heart disease is not yet evident...
...center, also known as the Villa 1 Tatti, is home to the Berenson Library and is used for post-graduate work about renassiance art and literature...
...being the Common Property of Mankind. Americans now begin to view the outflow of their own art with bemused alarm -- just as Italians and Englishmen, at the turn of the century, watched the Titians, Sassettas and Turners, pried loose from palazzo and stately home by the teamwork of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, disappearing into American museums. "The Japanese are awash in money," says New York's leading dealer in old-master drawings, David Tunick. "And when something really good goes to Japan, you feel it has vanished into an abyss...
...when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill from there; in 1910 one of his versions of Bacchus and Ariadne sold at Christie's for just under (pounds)10, a fraction of its auction price 60 years before. The nadir...