Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem has been oversimplified for the layman, Dr. Master complains. Men with a lot of cholesterol in their blood tend to have heart attacks earlier in life than others. Though some foods contain readymade cholesterol, the body manufactures more of it from saturated fats in meat and dairy products. So the argument runs: Cut down on saturated fats in the diet, thus lowering the cholesterol level in the blood and reducing the danger of artery disease and heart attacks...
...have deprived themselves of foods they crave, almost to the point of desperation," report Dr. Master and his colleague, Dr. Harry L. Jaffe. To avoid this situation, and to help their patients achieve "philosophical equanimity," they encourage people to relax and enjoy moderate amounts of butter and cream, meat and eggs. This is no different from Grandma's injunction to eat "everything in moderation." But today's doctors add this advice to their patients: leave the problems of cholesterol to the medical scientists...
...hydrogen atoms hooked onto the carbon atoms all along the molecular chain, as mono-unsaturated if hydrogen atoms are missing at one point in the chain, and as polyunsaturated if they are absent at two or more points. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported seed for use in dyes. Today, hundreds of thousands of acres...
...reprint the preface from the Riverside paper-back edition of Moby Dick (the edition with all those foolish notes), he has good, sometimes brillant things to say about Thoreau, Stephen Crane and John Jay Chapman, among others. In a later section of the book, he gets into his real meat, the turn-of-the-century naturalists and the generation of the '20's and '30's. Here he is at his best, soundly rebutting silly Lionel Trilling
...Moscow region, speculators welcomed the government's recent 30% price raise in the cost of meat. One result that astonished the authorities was that villagers began buying enormous quantities of bread, whose price had remained unchanged. In a typical village, bread sales in state stores abruptly rose to eleven tons a day, or well over 3 lbs. per capita for the 6,500 inhabitants. Investigators soon discovered that cheap bread was being converted into expensive meat by the simple process of feeding loaves to pigs, cattle and poultry...