Word: ncep
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...according to a report issued last week by the National Cholesterol Education Program of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The NCEP's medical experts concluded that the best way to avoid heart trouble later in life is to take preventive steps early in childhood. The report urges that all children above age two follow the same low-cholesterol, low-fat diet that is recommended for adults. Fat should make up no more than 30% of daily calories. In American children, like adults, fat now accounts for about 36%. The NCEP also calls for blood cholesterol tests in children...
These guidelines have won the endorsement of major health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association. Despite such consensus, however, much of the medical community is polarized over the entire issue of cholesterol and children. In fact, the NCEP report adroitly takes a middle ground between activists, who advocate even more radical measures, and conservatives, who contend that any intervention in children is premature...
...cholesterol-lowering diet for 50 years to prevent one premature cardiac death. Says Dr. Thomas Newman, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco: "These benefits are going to be so tiny that it seems unethical to do screening." Not to mention expensive. The NCEP estimates that a program to test 15 million kids will need $350 million to start up and $23 million a year thereafter...