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Nonfat Fryer. For people on a low-fat or low-calorie diet, Chicago's Pam Products put on the market a nonfat soybean extract that can be sprayed into the frying pan from an Aerosol container, used to fry meat, fish, potatoes, etc., without any shortening. The extract will permit people on a diet to eat more; an egg, which contains 70 calories, usually picks up another 55 when fried in shortening. Price...
...gospel that the only way to reduce is to cut down the amount of fuel (expressed as the number of calories) stoked into the body. And to do this they nearly always recommend cutting down most drastically on fats, sugars and starches, allowing an almost unlimited intake of low-fat protein foods such as lean meats, cottage cheese. The current ruckus was started by what seemed like a heretical doctrine coming from, of all places, one of the nation's most tradition-encrusted seats of medical orthodoxy, Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
...remiss too, said Dr. Page, in neglecting the early stages of the disease in their patients. As he put it: "The cardiologist [must] assume the burden of atherosclerosis, which he has so long and so successfully avoided in favor of taking care of its consequences." And on prescribing a low-fat or low-sodium diet, Dr. Page had more bitter words for the profession which sounded sweet to many a dieted layman. Dr. Page came to his conclusions the hard way: he made a drastic cut in the amount of fat he himself consumed. True, there followed a sharp drop...
Most hopeful was Dr. Gofman's report of the patients' response to a low-fat low-cholesterol diet.* After a few weeks there was a marked reduction in the concentration of abnormal molecules in their blood. The patients who had once had a heart attack showed just as much improvement as healthy men. But, Dr. Gofman emphasized, there was no evident connection between diet and the total amount of cholesterol of all kinds in the blood. Fortunately, the abnormal molecules, which seem to be involved in atherosclerosis are the ones that can be largely controlled by diet...
Most surgeons prefer to cut out the gall bladder with the stones because a sack, once diseased, usually becomes inflamed again. The operation is not difficult, and since the gall bladder is not an essential organ (horses have none), a patient need only follow a low-fat diet to stay healthy...