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Show A NEW HEALTH PROJECT . Increasing numbers of researchers have been I endeavoring to stem what they feel to be misconcep- ; tions concerning diet and health. An impression has gained currency that if the government literally out- ; Jawed certain basic foods that have been around ! since the beginning of time, heart disease, for exam- pie, could be all but wiped out. Millions have been 4 encouraged to deprive themselves of nutritious foods. i ; Typical of the authorities who have been alarm- ed by the trend is David Gritchevesky, Ph. D., of the 5 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Phila-j Phila-j delphia, Pennsylvania. In a recent talk with Food : Writers' Conference he commented. Cholesterol, in recent years, has become a dirty word in the Ameri-; Ameri-; can lexicon ... I think the notoriety can really be attributed to Mr. Eisenhower's first coronary. Until ; then, nobody ever heard of cholesterol and then they ; began quoting the President's cholesterol level in the ' paper and everybody began wondering about it. 1 : That cholesterol is in some way associated with ! heart disease is not new. In 1733, an Italian patholo- 4 gist . . . found it in a human artery ... the reason I for the great worry and the emphasis on cholesterol and heart disease is that in the United States and most of the Western world, there's nothing left to die from, other than cancer, heart disease and acci- dents. Most of the other causes of death have been j eliminated." I :: So far as normal healthy persons are concerned, j the main burden of the researchers' findings is that the wisest course to follow to maintain good health is much the same as it has always been eat mod- , erately of basic nutritious food and pursue a regi- I men of reasonable exercise. Hysteria over health can itself become a health problem. |