Word: cholesterol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dr. Norman Jolliffe, 59, crusading nutritionist who linked the U.S.'s high coronary death rate with its high-fat diet, made the world cholesterol-conscious with scores of monographs, weight-reducing clinics and diet-watching "Anti-Coronary Clubs"; from complications of diabetes; in New York City, where he was named the first Bureau of Nutrition director in 1949, continued to serve until last week although blind and restricted to a wheel chair since...
...secret tour" of North Africa-to convince the Germans that an Allied invasion would be launched from that area. Danny starts out as a U.S. private lent to the British army "to show them how to open Spam." Being on a fat-free, salt-free, low-calorie, highprotein, low-cholesterol diet, Danny skips meals, and passes the time impersonating "Satchmo," Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Intelligence catches his act, notes a resemblance to General Lawrence MacKenzie-Smith (played by-well, who else?), gets him the assignment of impersonating the general, who soon becomes the object of several assassination attempts...
...countless victims of heart attacks are ruefully aware, the ECG gives no indication of early coronary disease or danger of an imminent attack. The BCG does, its proponents claim: the artery narrowings of atherosclerosis, such as those involving cholesterol deposits, which lead to attacks, show up in measurements the heart's blood output. But the BCG cannot become a standard item in physical checkups until the newer instruments (there are several models by different makers) have been thoroughly tested...
...state that "nicotinic acid, to be effective [in controlling blood cholesterol], must be administered in massive doses. The result: flushing, itching, nausea, headaches, changes in the blood...
...first days of treatment, and transient nausea and headaches are encountered infrequently. Changes in the blood have, to my knowledge, not been reported. On the other hand, from your report one gains the impression that a restriction of fat intake will always lead to a significant lowering of blood cholesterol. This is not the case, and it is especially in refractory cases that nicotinic acid has proved its value. Nicotinic acid is not indicated for cooperative patients whose blood cholesterol responds to dietary restrictions...