Show Butterballs In Bad Shape I it g hd d we e ea tomorrow may come a 11 lot soon or er than it needs to That To morrow is the one named inthe in inthe the fatalistic quote Let us eat drink and be merr merry for tomorrow we die AMERICAS AMERICA'S eating habits it seems may be a bit of a 11 shortcut short to death Dr Ancel Keys noted physiologist at the University of oC Minnesota says most Americans eat too much Dr Keys directs a worldwide world study aimed at uncovering the reasons why nations differ durer wide ly in their death rates Irons from heart attacks On the average he says Am- Am Americans Americans devour about cal cal- calories calones ories ones daily while 2300 would nourish them quite amply Ac Ac- Ac According cording to life insurance com com com- company pany figures this means about 48 million Americans are butter butter- balling around with excess avoirdupois dupois Population studies have bave turned up some striking corre- corre correlations correlations lations between overweight and heart disease and diabetes EATING TOO much is not all Americans also eat too much of the wrong things namely fats says Dr Keys Typically 45 40 per cent of our diets consist of fat What's more the bulk of this fat is of the animal or saturated variety Saturated fats increase blood levels of cholesterol the Utah Heart Association says Re- Re Researchers Researchers searchers have accumulated Quite a stockpile of data show show- showing showing ing a striking relationship be be- be between tween blood levels of of 01 and the risk of heart attack That is the higher the blood cholesterol the greater the risk Two free booklets What We Know About Diet and Heart Disease and Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack can be obtained by writing the Association Association at East First South Salt Lake City |