Word: fish
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...largely because it is the easiest to measure and thus be comes a handy guide to arterial and coronary health. Among peasants in India, starved of protein and of fat, a cholesterol level of 125 milligrams per 100 milliliters of blood is common. It is about the same for fish-and-rice-eating Japanese. Among Americans living high off the hog, it hits 250 before a doctor begins to worry. And among men with coronary-artery disease, it may go to 500 or more...
...weave around to leave hard or saturated fats on one side and polyunsaturated fats on the other. The blubber of whales and the oil of seals and other marine mammals is polyunsaturated, so Eskimos can eat them and still keep their cholesterol low. Also polyunsaturated are the oils of fish. The fat of chickens and turkeys (unlike that of ducks and geese) is mainly neutral...
rivers where fish have died in conspicuous numbers...
...pesticides to blame? The Public Health Service said they were when 5,000,000 fish died last fall in the Mississippi Delta. After a hurried investigation and an analysis of the remains of ten dead catfish, PHS blamed the entire slaughter on endrin, an insecticide used on cotton and sugar cane in the farms around the lower reaches of the river. No significant amount of endrin was found in the water where the fish died, reported Cincinnati's Dr. Donald Mount. But in the blood of the dead catfish, he said, enough endrin was found to be fatal...
Agricultural and chemical interests pointed out that endrin is a notably safe and useful insecticide, and that it was hardly proper to indict the chemical on the evidence of so small a samling. Most of the dead Mississippi fish, PHS critics argued, were menhaden, an almost inedible saltwater inhabitant...