Word: cholesterol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly becoming as much a part of American life as organic apple...
...diet rich in such highly refined carbohydrates as white flour and sugar. Tumors, both benign and malignant, are related to biochemical and bacterial changes caused by long retention of feces. As for heart disease: "Evidence is accumulating that shows that the removal of fiber from the diet raises serum cholesterol levels, a process that predisposes to coronary heart disease...
Kiss Maerth binds his ideas together with a most inventive use of scattered, fragmentary data and his own obviously passionate conviction. It is quite a read, though persons on a low cholesterol diet might care to pass...
Chain Reaction. Friedman and Rosenman are fully aware of the plethora of factors that contribute to the 20th century epidemic of heart disease and premature death: obesity and diabetes, high-fat and high-cholesterol diets, smoking and lack of exercise, and hereditary tendencies. But the two doctors maintain that behavior patterns are at least as important as any of the other causes and may indeed underlie some of them. For example, the Type A's instantly aggressive response to trivial slights and threats may set off a chain reaction of hormonal changes that can impair the metabolism of fats...
Benditt's hypothesis is based on experiments with chickens, which developed arterial deposits identical to those found in humans, whether or not the birds were fed cholesterol. Some fatty material was found in the growths, but it apparently had begun to accumulate after the formation of the plaques...