Subject: Re: [Homestead] - - - Great guy; great story
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:20:29 -0800
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".