Word: cholesterols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People who have switched to decaffeinated coffee for health reasons got a nasty jolt last week. At a meeting of the American Heart Association, Stanford researchers reported a study of 181 middle-aged men showing that among those who exchanged decaffeinated for regular coffee, levels of harmful LDL cholesterol rose an average of 7%. That could increase the risk of heart attack an estimated...
...that time, 283 of the participants, all of whom were in good health at the start of the study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found that deaths were sharply higher in the least-fit category than in the second-most- sedentary group -- more than double for men and almost twice as high for women...
Health-conscious Americans are hunting out game because it is generally lower in calories, cholesterol and saturated fats than other meats. Game also appeals to food purists because it is raised without artificial hormones or antibiotics. People see it as "natural and of the earth," says La Toque owner-chef Ken Frank, whose venison dishes are popular at his tony Los Angeles restaurant. In Phoenix, chef Vincent Guerithault, owner of Vincent on Camelback, has developed a line of "heart-smart" game entrees. Once chefs % had to scramble to find a brace of partridge or pheasant. Not anymore. Game suppliers...
...trick is to become more like Indians without losing the best parts of cowboy culture -- rationalism and the spirit of inquiry. We need more science now, not less. How can we stretch our nerves around those numbers and make them as real and as ominous as our cholesterol readings? Repeat them each night on the evening news? We need feedback, as if we were the audience in a giant public radio fund-raising drive hitting the phones and making pledges. Like expert pilots navigating through a foggy night, we need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments...
...national crusade to lower cholesterol has come under fire. Though some of the criticisms are valid, the evidence still supports the link between a sensible diet and a healthier heart...