Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...menus represent no attempt to automate a housewife's traditional chore. They are part of a serious and important study, financed by the U.S. Public Health Service, designed to discover whether American men still in their prime can be saved from fatal heart attacks by changes in their diet...
...growing confusion about fats and the heart. Today, almost every time some authority sounds off on the subject, the effect is to multiply the contradictions. Last week the American Heart Association suggested that although the proof is not yet conclusive, the weight of evidence indicates that a lower-fat diet, with proportionately more polyunsaturated:|: vegetable fats, will help to save lives. But the Food and Drug Administration had just threatened action against manufacturers who label shortenings and cooking oils as polyunsaturated, thus implying that they are good for the heart and arteries...
...Prudent Diet. Until 50 years ago, Americans consumed on the average only about 25% of their calories in the form of fat. They also got a great deal of physical exercise, which tends to keep fat from piling up either on the ribs or in the blood. By 1950, though, New York City's late Dr. Norman Jolliffe estimated that fats made up at least 40% of the average American's calories, and nearly all of them were hard, saturated fats...
...very well to get 700 highly motivated men in New York City to go on Dr. Jolliffe's "prudent diet," but could the mass of American men be induced to do the same while still apparently healthy? Now the National Diet-Heart Study, headed by Cleveland's Dr. Irvine H. Page (TIME Cover, Oct. 31, 1955), is seeking an answer. Backed by the U.S. Public Health Service, the study aims to find out 1) whether men will voluntarily restrict their diets now for the sake of a possible health gain in the future, 2) whether the prescribed diets...
...Chemists call a fat saturated if each carbon atom along the molecular chain has hydrogen atoms attached. It is monounsaturated if one carbon atom is free of the hydrogen bonds; it is polyunsaturated if two or more are free. *Amid a plethora of diet books, a new edition of Jolliffe's Reduce and Stay Reduced on the Prudent Diet (Simon & Schuster; $4.95) is the biggest seller...