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Doctors still differ about many details of the relationship between a high-fat diet and the high death rate from coronary disease in the U.S., but more and more are coming to a practical conclusion: cut down on the fats without waiting for all the facts. At the same time, they recommend a substantial switch from hard, saturated fats of animal origin to cooking oils of vegetable origin. After Cleveland's Dr. Irvine H. Page suggested that such a diet change was due for wide-scale trial (TIME, Jan. 5), Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe reported that 79 men. aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fats & Facts | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Well (Doubleday; $3.95), addressed to laymen as well as doctors. Although he insists that coronary disease and early deaths from heart attacks undoubtedly have many causes, Dr. Keys reasons that an excess of cholesterol in the blood is almost certainly a danger signal. Also, there is evidence suggesting that high-fat meals increase the danger of blood clots, commonest cause of heart attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fats & Facts | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Coronary artery disease, associated with high-fat diets in the West, is also frequent among Indian peasants, who eat little fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Nonexecutive Ulcer | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...prudent person who has had, or wishes to avoid, coronary heart disease should eat a high-fat diet of the type consumed by most Americans." So said Manhattan's famed Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe before New York's Orange County Heart Association this week. "This applies to all races and occupations, to the physically active and to the sedentary ... to the chain-smoking, tense, ambitious executive and to ... the satisfied, relaxed barkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fats & Heart Disease | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Eskimos handy for him to test in South Africa. But there were seals around the South African coast, so why not feed the Eskimo staple-seal oil-to the Bantu? Bronte-Stewart tried it, and found that the oil acted as a kind of cholesterol depressor. After a high-fat diet-ten eggs a day-the Bantu's blood cholesterol rose sharply, dropped again when seal oil was added to the food. But Bronte-Stewart had already noted the same effect from sunflower-seed oil. Evidently, the dividing line between fats that raise blood cholesterol and fats that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fats & Heart Disease | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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