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...particular, because of the belief that it is unhealthy. The real issue is that red meat ranks high among sources of fat in the U.S. diet. Says Dr. Sherwood Gorbach, professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer." At the very least, Gorbach notes, vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters, and that alone...
...primary prescription for lowering cholesterol levels still reads like a California cafe menu: low-fat milk and dairy products, lean meat, few eggs and absolutely no animal fat or poultry skin. If cholesterol cannot be reduced with diet alone, the panel directed, physicians should prescribe such drugs as cholestyramine and colestipol, which act in the intestines and cause the body to utilize excess cholesterol. The much touted newer drug lovastatin, which works in the liver, where most of the body's cholesterol is manufactured, is mentioned as a second choice, since its long-term effects remain unknown. Based...
...sugar is hardly nutritious since it contains "no fiber, vitamins, minerals or proteins. You get only calories." Liebman takes issue with the National Dairy Board's campaign for its emphasis on whole milk and cheeses, despite their being good sources of calcium. Consumers should be urged instead to drink low-fat milk and eat smaller portions of cheese, she says. Indeed, dairy products today are Americans' second highest source of saturated fat...
...proved elusive. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Blankenhorn of the University of Southern California reported that patients who were treated with a combination of the anticholesterol drug colestipol and the vitamin niacin showed a marked improvement over those who had maintained a low-fat diet alone...
...according to Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Jacobson, the Ralph Nader of the fast-food industry, thinks McDonald's ought to offer some broiled food instead of fried, and points out that the company has been slow to offer such low-fat fare as baked potatoes and salad bars. But McDonald's is finally starting to cater to the salad set. Right now the company is testing prepackaged, freshly assembled salads in about 40% of its U.S. outlets. The flavors: chef's, shrimp, garden or chicken oriental...