Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prudent person who has had, or wishes to avoid, coronary heart disease should eat a high-fat diet of the type consumed by most Americans." So said Manhattan's famed Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe before New York's Orange County Heart Association this week. "This applies to all races and occupations, to the physically active and to the sedentary ... to the chain-smoking, tense, ambitious executive and to ... the satisfied, relaxed barkeeper...
...mere five years ago, Dr. Jolliffe pointed out, medical scientists were still asking whether fats in the diet had anything to do with coronary disease. Now they have answered that question with a fairly firm yes, and gone on to more precise questions such as "how great is the effect of fats in the diet...
Eskimos & Bantu. This advance in knowledge of the relationship between diet and heart disease has been based on the highly advertised facts that in most heart-attack victims 1) blood carries an excess of fat compounds called beta-lipoproteins, which contain cholesterol (a fatty alcohol); and 2) the coronary arteries are usually lined with cholesterol. While the body makes some cholesterol of its own, the amount in fatty foods seems to be important. For a while it was thought that there was a significant difference between animal and vegetable fats. The countries where coronary disease is the No. 1 killer...
...British medical researcher at the University of Cape Town, Dr. Brian Bronte-Stewart, kept asking himself: "What about the Eskimos?" Although they eat lots of animal fat, such as seal oil, they have one of the world's lowest coronary disease rates. Dr. Bronte-Stewart was carrying on diet experiments with the Bantu; there were no Eskimos handy for him to test in South Africa. But there were seals around the South African coast, so why not feed the Eskimo staple-seal oil-to the Bantu? Bronte-Stewart tried it, and found that the oil acted as a kind...
Despite the recent flurry of research advances, there is still no cure for rheumatoid arthritis-not in drugs, and certainly not in diet. But from judicious drug treatment and intensive aftercare, the unfortunate victim of this most damaging form of rheumatism can expect substantial early relief, and later, a fair recovery...