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While trials beginning in the 1950s had shown that drugs and diet could reverse atherosclerosis in laboratory animals, Blankenhorn's groundbreaking work, begun in 1980, was the first controlled study demonstrating that the same results could be produced in humans. His subjects were 188 nonsmoking males who had undergone bypass surgery. (Most heart-disease research has been done on men rather than women.) Blankenhorn placed half of them on a diet containing 22% fat and gave them colestipol and large doses of niacin, both standard cholesterol-reducing drugs. The other recruits, the control group, merely limited the fat content...
...high cholesterol levels and a family history of heart disease. Brown divided his subjects into three groups, one taking niacin and colestipol, the second receiving colestipol and another cholesterol reducer, lovastatin. The third or control group got only a pair of placebos. All the men were placed on a diet that limited fats to 30% of total calories, the level recommended by the A.H.A. Here, too, after 2 1/2 years, those taking the drugs experienced large drops in their total cholesterol level, and 35% showed a decrease in arterial plaque...
They kept to a vegetarian diet that contained less than 10% fat and banned all oils. At twice-weekly meetings, a psychologist held group support sessions. Everyone was taught stress-management techniques, including yoga, and was told to spend an hour a day meditating, visualizing arteries unclogging, and doing relaxation and breathing drills. Smoking was prohibited and moderate exercise recommended...
Clearly, preventing heart disease is better than trying to reverse it once the process starts. Experts differ on the best mix of prevention strategies, but they agree on one thing: Americans should cut down on the fat in their diet. Otherwise, they could be eating themselves into an early grave...
...first glance, the legislation under discussion in the Diet last week seemed innocuous enough. The bill before the house called for the creation of a "United Nations Peace Cooperation Corps" that could be sent overseas in response to resolutions by the world organization. That notion appeared unexceptionable, since Japan has long been a strong advocate of the U.N.; yet the bill generated a furious debate. The reason: the proposed law would allow the Prime Minister to dispatch units of the armed forces to foreign soil for the first time since...