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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

Gene offered :
> In 1947, he noticed the increasing numbers of deaths from heart attacks, as 
> noted in the newspapers' obituary pages, and began to study 283 

businessmen 

from the Twin Cities, conducting examinations and taking blood samples every 
five years. It showed that smoking, high blood pressure and elevated 
cholesterol were frequently seen in men who had heart attacks. After a decade 
of work, he determined that saturated fat chiefly determined blood 
cholesterol levels, a breakthrough that stunned the meat-and-potatoes 
populace.

I would have been more impressed had the
study been equally divided between *laborers*
and 'businessmen'. But he was right in that
the sedentary but well-fed lifestyle *is*
"killing".