Word: cholesterol
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...Rosen got on the trail among the Mabaan, a primitive tribe in a remote part of the southeast Sudan who eat practically no meat or saturated fat and have low cholesterol and blood-pressure levels even in their 70s. They are a quiet people, but that alone did not explain why their hearing is amazingly sharp, especially for frequencies as high as 12,000 cycles per second-about the upper limit for an adult Western man. Equally significant, said Dr. Rosen, the Mabaan have no pronounced hearing loss at 4,000 c.p.s., which is particularly associated with loss of elasticity...
...hypothesis, Dr. Rosen later studied men in two mental hospitals in Finland, where the intake of hard dairy fats and the incidence of heart disease are about the world's highest. Finnish doctors put the men in one hospital on a low-fat diet. After five years, their cholesterol levels and their heartdisease death rate dropped, as expected. In addition, low-fat men in the 50-to-59 age range had more acute hearing than men aged 40 to 49 in the nondiet, high-fat hospital...
Shades of Poppaea. Health officials in Indiana made the bizarre complaint that rivers were suffering from milk pollution. In Daleville, Ind., two women frolicked for photographers in 400-gal. milk baths-a higher-cholesterol ablution than anyone has enjoyed since Nero's wife, Poppaea, took a daily dip in asses' milk. In several towns, striking N.F.O. farmers bought up milk in stores, dumped it along with their...
...spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then the pen came to the last column, cryptically marked S.G.O.T. (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase-an index of liver function). As the red line jumped to the top of the chart, above the 250 mark, the doctor exclaimed, "My God!" It was his first intimation that...
Martens, director of the Washington Hospital Center's laboratories, now in charge of the A.M.A. screenings, reports that 23% of the physicians tested had higher-than-normal cholesterol levels, 15% had high uric acid, and 6% revealed some kidney trouble. In the last screening, six cases of unsuspected diabetes were disclosed. Similar findings could be expected in any group of professional men in the same age range...