Word: niacin
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Finally, for general vigor and vitality, the key seems to be beans. Good for your heart, as the saying goes, and good for other parts of your body, as well. Basically, beans, which are high in niacin, help increase your blood flow and let your body exert itself fully. Dartboard hopes that the dining services will take these recommendations to heart. We will...
...whole grains motes healthy skin Vitamin K needed by liver for formation of cereals, dairy products, meats blook-clotting factors Vitamin C helps body fight against colds, may citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry energy metabolism Vitamin B6 needed by enzymes for amino acid poultry, fish, grain products metabolism Vitamin B12 important for recycling coenzymes animal products for metabolism Folic Acid essential for DNA formation and nor- liver, leafy vegetables mal cell division Minerals...
...same results could be produced in humans. His subjects were 188 nonsmoking males who had undergone bypass surgery. (Most heart-disease research has been done on men rather than women.) Blankenhorn placed half of them on a diet containing 22% fat and gave them colestipol and large doses of niacin, both standard cholesterol-reducing drugs. The other recruits, the control group, merely limited the fat content of their diet...
Brown's study, begun in 1984 and reported at an American Heart Association meeting last year, involved 146 men with high cholesterol levels and a family history of heart disease. Brown divided his subjects into three groups, one taking niacin and colestipol, the second receiving colestipol and another cholesterol reducer, lovastatin. The third or control group got only a pair of placebos. All the men were placed on a diet that limited fats to 30% of total calories, the level recommended by the A.H.A. Here, too, after 2 1/2 years, those taking the drugs experienced large drops in their total...