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...National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The NCEP's medical experts concluded that the best way to avoid heart trouble later in life is to take preventive steps early in childhood. The report urges that all children above age two follow the same low-cholesterol, low-fat diet that is recommended for adults. Fat should make up no more than 30% of daily calories. In American children, like adults, fat now accounts for about 36%. The NCEP also calls for blood cholesterol tests in children whose parents or grandparents have histories of heart disease or high cholesterol. Such screening would...
Moreover, there are as yet no studies demonstrating that lowering cholesterol in childhood directly prevents heart disease in adulthood. Even if the thesis were proved, the benefits might be minimal. By one estimate, 100 to 200 boys (or 300 to 600 girls) would need to follow a cholesterol-lowering diet for 50 years to prevent one premature cardiac death. Says Dr. Thomas Newman, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco: "These benefits are going to be so tiny that it seems unethical to do screening." Not to mention expensive. The NCEP estimates that a program...
...strong correlation between cholesterol and these lesions," says Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of the landmark Bogalusa Heart Study that monitored 12,000 children for 18 years. Moreover, youngsters in the U.S. have much higher cholesterol levels than do children in countries like Japan and China, where the diet stresses vegetables over meats and dairy products. In those nations heart disease is less common...
...took responsibility for the loss. Ruling party insiders say that Ozawa had agreed to try to prevent re-election of the L.D.P.'s incumbent governor as part of a deal with the opposition, in exchange for passage of Japan's additional $9 billion gulf-war contribution in the Diet...
...staff could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients are on Medicaid. Many have not graduated from high school. Some women must travel 90 minutes to get to the clinic, and many have no car. Outreach workers visit them monthly to provide instruction on prenatal care, proper diet, childbirth and parenting. And they even offer child-safety seats at cut-rate prices...