Frontiers in the Nutrition Sciences Proceedings of a Symposium (1989) / Chapter Skim
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INTRODUCTION William E Connor I would like to make several points in the way of introducing this section of the report, the future of dietary intervention.
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The food supply of the hunters and gatherers was diverse, with hundreds of individual foods gathered from nature. In particular, the animals were lean and their meat had a much more polyunsaturated fatty acid composition as compared with the saturated fat of the feedlot animals consumed by humans today.
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The American Heart Association issued a formal statement with dietary recommendations to prevent coronary heart disease in 1960. By the late 1970s, it was apparent that the mortality from coronary disease in the United States was 20 to 30% less.
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that country were silent, and the incidence of coronary disease increased in England while it decreased in the United States. The United States is now at the stage of history of nutritional intervention when public policy by government can provide a further impetus for proper nutrition, especially for those of our citizens, the underclass, who are not in touch with these informal educational networks that provide so much nutritional guidance -- for those who don't read Jane Brody in the New York Times or attend lectures by distinguished physicians.
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