Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cholesterol in the bloodstream comes from two sources: it is produced naturally by the body's cells and also results from the intake of foods containing saturated fats or pure cholesterol -- for example, butter, cheese, liver, eggs and animal fat. In the Third World, where relatively little saturated fat and cholesterol are consumed, most people seem to be protected from heart disease by low LDL levels. The problem with the Western world's rich diet is that it puts the body into overdrive, so that more LDL cholesterol accumulates in the bloodstream than can be absorbed and used by cells...
...heed. Although the heart-attack death rate in the U.S. has fallen roughly 3% a year since 1967, too many people are hanging on to the bad old ways. In a report last July, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned Americans that they are still consuming too much saturated fat and that their cholesterol counts are too high. A basic problem is that many Americans -- 79%, according to a Louis Harris poll published earlier this year -- do not know what their cholesterol levels should...
...Michael and his brother Daniel, 58, a retired barber in Canonsburg, Pa., have a genetic disorder that results in very high levels of LDL and low levels of HDL. Daniel has suffered a heart attack, and both brothers have had bypass surgery. Now the Brunos are on low-saturated-fat diets and are taking lovastatin. In addition, Michael is taking gemfibrozil. Since the brothers started their programs, Michael's total cholesterol has fallen from 224 to 184, and Daniel's from 325 to 201. Both brothers' HDL levels have gone up sharply. "I can't imagine that I used...
...That child is getting fat as a butterball," Bonnie had declared happily ; that very morning at a meeting of other families whose foster children carry HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Tina's doctors have lately totted up her symptoms and moved her into the category called AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Bonnie takes this as a hopeful sign: the child has a whole stage to go before full-blown AIDS. Tina's birth mother, a drug addict with AIDS, is less optimistic. She phoned not long ago and remarked, "Tina's going...
...heartless mother had banished all high cholesterol, high fat, high taste products from her refrigerator. In their place were interlopers like cottage cheese, lean cuisine meals, prunes and something called "eggbeaters." I suddenly realized that my parents had stopped worrying about me and were beginning to withdraw into their own special high blood pressure diets...