Word: rifkind
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...Basil Rifkind, project director of the study, believes that research "strongly indicates that the more you lower cholesterol and fat in your diet, the more you reduce your risk of heart disease...
...lesson is plain, says Dr. Charles Glueck, director of the University of Cincinnati Lipid Research Center, one of twelve centers that participated in the project: "For every 1% reduction in total cholesterol level, there is a 2% reduction of heart-disease risk." This, says Project Director Basil Rifkind, is the evidence scientists have been waiting for. "It is a turning point in cholesterol-heart-disease research...
Concluded the director of the project, Dr. Basil Rifkind of the NHLBI: "It is now indisputable that lowering cholesterol with diet and drugs can actually cut the risk of developing heart disease and having a heart attack...
Scientists stress that about 25% of U.S. adults, both men and women, need to lower their blood cholesterol. "Know what your level is," advises Rifkind. "If it's above 240, certainly above 250, it should be reduced." His first recommendation is to cut back on cholesterol-rich foods and substitute chicken and fish, for example. "And if that doesn't work, drugs should be considered." Doctors estimate that if Americans followed this prescription wholeheartedly, at least 100,000 of the more than half a million lives claimed by heart disease each year could be saved...