Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most important for significant findings about the functions of diet and stress in heart disease...
...believed that coronary heart disease is more prevalent among people subject to strong emotional stress, but just how stress does its damage has always been a mystery. With the discovery of large amounts of cholesterol in the blood of heart victims, many doctors switched the blame from stress to diet, since some fats are known to raise the blood's cholesterol level. Colonel Groover's findings interrelate both stress and diet...
Canapés & Cholesterol. Whenever Groover found cholesterol danger signs in a patient, he put him on strict diet and exercise. Of nearly 100 men in this category, 75% were thus restored to normal cholesterol levels. But some of the men developed high levels of cholesterol and lipoproteins (fat compounds containing cholesterol) even under the strict regimen...
...Dart concludes, must have been a prodigious hunter, because around his bones are scattered fragments of the antelope, giraffe, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotamus. He also fished the streams for water turtles and robbed the nest of the shrike. Giant rodent moles, wart hogs and porcupines were staples of his diet. No creature except modern man has ever been such an efficient killer, says Dr. Dart...
...swim was the Walter Reed Swim Club's Shelley Mann, who led a U.S. sweep of the 100-meter "butterfly. U.S. men, expected to score heavily, were swamped in the foam of their hustling hosts. Murray Rose, a 17-year-old Aussie who tries a seaweed diet and even hypnotism to help him along, sliced through the water as if a shark were snapping at his toes, set a new Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle, helped his teammates set a world record as they took the 800-meter relay, then came back to whip New York...