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Show Cholesterol screening available at county health department garine, and have eliminated certain fatty foods from their diet. This person has a good chance to reduce his cholesterol because his family is supporting him in the change. They have all changed their diets. They hide the potato chips in the basement! After several sever-al months of conscientious effort to change eating habits, he should go back for another test. This official has several predispositions predis-positions to high cholesterol that he cannot control family history of high cholesterol, male sex and age above 40. Because he has all three, it is very important for his family to implement immediate action ac-tion to reduce cholesterol. Factors that can be controlled include dietary intake of high cholesterol foods, smoking, high blood pressure and weight. Foods high in saturated fats include in-clude meat fat, butter, cream, hyd-rogenated hyd-rogenated shortening, palm and coconut oils. Saturated fats are solid (rather than liquid) at room temperature. Recommended fats to be used in moderation are polyunsaturated fats such as safflower oil, sunflower sunflow-er oil, and corn oil, also monounsa-turated monounsa-turated fats such as olive oil and peanut oil. Fats should be less than 30 percent of the daily caloric intake. in-take. Nationally, education about cholesterol is being targeted at both physicians and the general public. Dr. Enrico A. Leopardi, Davis County Director of Health, recommends the book "Heart Smart" by the National Heart Association for its guidelines and suggestions on changing lifestyle through behavior modification. He says that because the health risk is so great, Davis, Weber and Salt Lake Counties have set up their education and screening programs. By KATHLEEN WILSON Because coronary heart disease dis-ease is the number one cause of death in the United "States, Utah and Davis County, the Davis County Health Department has launched a major cholesterol program. prog-ram. Aimed at prevention, it includes in-cludes two focus points. The first is a screening clinic opened in the Courthouse on Thursday afternoons from 1-4 p.m. For a fee of $5, a blood sample is taken and three minutes later the client's cholesterol level is shown. By the end of May, the Health Department De-partment is hoping to increase their ability to help high cholesterol clients by further tests before referring refer-ring to a private physician. The public health nurses have been conducting screening tests for various groups recently, two of which are the mayors who are members of the Council of Governments Govern-ments and the Davis County School District employees. As each mayor had his blood drawn for the test, another was receiving re-ceiving his results. Several mayors expressed concern about their high cholesterol level. To be accurate, another test should be given two weeks later if a high reading was received. Follow-up by private physicians is recommended. The second focus is on education in lifestyle changes. Officials believe be-lieve it is best to teach people what they should be eating before their eating patterns are set. Since this is not possible for adults who have been eating for years, changes are vital for good health. Children can be taught good eating habits when young. If an individual has been tested high in cholesterol, it is important im-portant for his children to be tested also it runs in families. A school district official had been tested very high, over 300. As a result of the test, his family has changed their eating habits considerably. consid-erably. They now eat whole wheat bread, one percent milk, tub mar- |
