Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practiced obstetrics in Brooklyn and recently moved to Manhattan on the strength of his expanding royalties. But, said the FDA, publishers Simon & Schuster sent Taller's manuscript to a freelance sports writer, Roger Kahn, to be revised "in more of a mail-order inspirational technique." The book absolved fat ties of their guilt by crediting them with a metabolic abnormality. It exhorted them to eat as much as they wanted of most fat foods, especially those containing unsaturated fats (see following story). And it prescribed six capsules a day of safflower...
...that. Though cholesterol is found in diseased coronary arteries, it is not yet certain whether cholesterol is the original cause of damage or a secondary invader. Many high-cholesterol men never have heart attacks at all. While doctors use the cholesterol level as a guide to the amount of fat in the blood, it is a crude and unreliable measure: it varies with exercise and whatever drugs the patient may have taken; it depends on whether he has been nibbling snacks or eating three meals a day. It changes with his emotional ten sion (how worried is he about this...
Meanwhile the mere hope that a change in diet will prolong life is filling U.S. kitchens and men's stomachs with hitherto esoteric oils; housewives are chattering with superficial knowingness about polyunsaturated fats.* Americans get an average of 40% to 45% of their daily calories in fats, and before the cholesterol craze came along, most of the fat was saturated. Some doctors have urged simply cutting down fats, of whatever kind, to about 30% of the total caloric intake. Others have advocated substituting polyunsaturated fat for much of the saturated stuff, and worrying less about the total intake. Conservative...
...When the pent-up hunger for hard goods created by World War II was finally sated, many U.S. manufacturers found themselves stuck with slackened production lines, and to keep their plants busy abandoned their insistence on Fair Trade pricing of their products in order to get the discounters' fat orders. At that point, the old-line department stores decided that they had to do more than jeer at the discounters. No longer could a discounter send his customers over to a department store for free demonstration of an appliance or to a music store to listen to a phonograph...
Thurs., July 5 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Fat American" looks at easy living through labor-saving gadgets, and reports on the probable causes of and possible cures for obesity. Repeat...