Word: high-fat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...driving go-getter, he says, cannot clear his bloodstream fast enough of the triglycerides which accumulate after a high-fat meal. Unlike the more placid man, the go-getter uses too much of his body's heparin to break up the fat. There is not enough heparin (nature's anticoagulant) left to keep the red blood cells apart: "If, after every meal, a man has too many fat particles going around and red cells sludging and obstructing small blood vessels, the heart may be temporarily so embarrassed that this man will have a heart attack without a clot...
Died. Dr. Norman Jolliffe, 59, crusading nutritionist who linked the U.S.'s high coronary death rate with its high-fat diet, made the world cholesterol-conscious with scores of monographs, weight-reducing clinics and diet-watching "Anti-Coronary Clubs"; from complications of diabetes; in New York City, where he was named the first Bureau of Nutrition director in 1949, continued to serve until last week although blind and restricted to a wheel chair since...
...Study of diets in the U.S.," said the A.H.A. report, "indicates that they usually contain large amounts of fat, which account for approximately 40-45% of the calories. In contrast, many populations in other parts of the world-for example, large groups in Asia, Africa and Latin America-eat food containing barely a third as much fat. The concentrations of cholesterol in the blood of such groups are much less than in those consuming the excess-calorie and high-fat diets, and some reports indicate that heart attacks are correspondingly fewer...
...lack of steady physical exercise, even by itself, may encourage the stimulatory system to work overtime. Alone, this might not do much harm. But it is most likely to be combined with other factors that are known to damage the heart: pro longed emotional stress, high blood pres sure, coronary atherosclerosis and a high-fat diet...
Looking for the causes of "coronaries," medical men point accusing fingers at heredity, high-fat diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...