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1. CLOGGED PIPES - When a Spanish-speaking friend wants to wish you the very best that life can offer, he will often lift his glass with the following toast:

To health and wealth — and time to enjoy both."

Embodied in this simple salute are the three basic desires common to people everywhere in all ages.

2. PHYSIOLOGY OF FAT - Is fat necessary? Is like asking “Is Crime Necessary?" or "Is it Necessary to be Fat?" The implica­tion alone is bad, like asking "How Often Do You Beat Your Wife?" Of course, the answer to all of these questions is "no."

Some nutritionists and scientists believe that a small amount of fatty acids or com­ponents of certain fats are essential to human nutrition.

3. FAT ON TRIAL - In 1911, in Moscow, Russia, a scientist named Anitschkow made the first discovery that later led to the identification of fat as the killer in cases of hardening of the arteries. He gave us the first clue to the role that fat in the blood vessels plays in causing heart attacks and strokes. Pro­fessor Anitschkow, now a vigorous 86, fed animals with choles­terol, one of the purest of fats.

4. REALLY WELL - Diet is an important factor in the cause and cure of many ills. The wrong foods can cause allergic reactions ranging from the well-known straw­berry rash to death from allergic asphyxiation. The right foods can help you clear up such allergic reactions. The wrong foods can bring on overweight, sap your energy, rob you of zest and well-being. And in the degenerative diseases of the heart and blood vessels, diet is the key; it is the difference between active good health and dangerous illness.

5. DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (PART 1) - Itis said that goats will eat anything. At various times their owners have reported that the animals had consumed such things as items of laundry from the clothesline, old shoes, paper (including bank­notes), and in one case a horse's tail. With an appetite like that, you would think that Billy or Nanny would gladly accept an invitation to have dinner with us. But such, apparently, is not the case.

5. DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (PART 2) - The menus presented here include well balanced meals of high protein and high nutritional quality, with emphasis on very low-fat and low-cholesterol content. Although cholesterol is contained in all animal and vegetable fats, glandular organs such as brains, liver, kidney, sweetbreads, and giblets are especially high in cholesterol. In the case of liver, however, there are additional protective nutrients called phospholipids, that help overcome it’s cholesterol content, and therefore make liver a valuable source of nourishment.

6. THE CALORIES - If 20 million Americans were to appear on the streets tomorrow, each with a cement block weigh­ing between 20 and 40 pounds permanently attached to his per­son, it would create a tremendous stir. How, you would ask, can they carry a load like that for the rest of their lives? They would command the sympathy of the entire nation. It is quite likely that our Congress itself would enact some kind of legisla­tion to aid them. Fantastic? Not at all. As a matter of fact, such a situation does prevail right at this moment.

7. ADD TO YOUR LIFE - How many years could you add to your life by reducing your weight to normal, and maintaining it there? This is a question that can be answered, and the answer is a dramatic one.

No matter what your age may be, you can increase your life span by a definite number of years. What's more, those addi­tional years can be healthy, happy years, full of things that make life worth living—really worth living.

8. STOP SMOKING? - Smoking is the burning question of the day. Everyone wants to know, for certain, the answer to this question: "What is the effect of smoking on my health?"

"To smoke or not to smoke" is a frequent topic of conversa­tion of the more than 100 million American smokers. Until recently, the public has been as confused as the medical pro­fession was in the past. Now overwhelming evidence on the harmful effects of excessive use of tobacco can no longer be disregarded.

9. ALCOHOL AFFECT? - Alcohol is both a blessing and a curse, a poison and a food, a 'pick-me-up' and a 'lay-me-down', both an appetite stimulator and a destroyer; it is truly a mass of contradictions.

The very name whiskey originates from the ancient Gaelic word "usquebrugh"—water of life! Over 65 per cent of the United States population (more than 100 million Americans) drink alcoholic beverages. Of these, 76 per cent are men and 24 per cent are women.

10. HEART ATTACH - Not long ago, David S., now a patient of mine, was rushed to the hospital after he had collapsed during a meeting of his newspaper's editorial board. He had had a heart attack.

The people who work with Dave, and those who knew him well, were astonished and a little frightened.

11. GROWING YOUNGER - To those Americans among the 20 million who are 60 years and over, some may ask, "Of what value is the low-fat diet to me? If I were 40 years old, a book like this would be my Bible. But it's too late for me to benefit from this book now, so late in my life. I only wish that it had been written and that I had read it 25 years ago."

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