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THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR MonH April 13, 1959 mi 'EAT WELL AND LIVE WELL' U. S. Learns It Can't Eat Cake and Have Trim Waistline Too Why This Book Was Written I I .31 i I I 1 1 Joan Swanson Engaged to Dr. Johnson Special to the Minneapolis Tribune MINOT, N. D.

Announcement is made of the engage-ment of Joan Astrid Swanson, Chicago, to Dr. James H.Johnson, Newton, son of Mrs. Clara M. Johnson, Red Wing, Minn. Miss Swanson is a daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. John G. Swanson, Minot, and a niece of Martha, Clara and Louise Reishus, also of Minot. A July wedding is planned here. Miss Swanson, a graduate of St.

Olaf college, Northfield, is director of foundation relations in the department of development at Northwestern university, Evanston, III. She formerly served as director of volunteer services of Fairview hospital, Minneapolis, and was a member of the public relations staff at St. Olaf. Dr. Johnson is superintendent of schools in Newton.

He was a member of the Minot public school system from 1946 to 1953. He received a doctorate from Columbia university in 1954. 145 Students to Be Welcomed SAINT JOSEPH, Minn. (Special) Students and faculty members at the College of St. Benedict will entertain 143 high school seniors at a get-acquainted campus week-end Saturday through next Monday.

Plans are being handled by Marlene Bondy, all-college president. This book was written to meet a practical need. Something had to be done about a flood of requests, from colleagues and the public, for information about the relationship between coronary heart disease, cholesterol in the blood, and the character of diet. We are aware that full understanding of these questions is not at hand. No one knows why saturated fats cause the blood cholesterol to rise, how this cholesterol is deposited in the walls of the arteries, or what causes the blood to clot in such damaged arteries.

However, we believe that control of the cholesterol and related lipids in the blood must have an important effect on the tenedency to develop atherosclerosis. And we know that control of the blood cholesterol is possible through diet control. Moreover these diets are excellent for weight control. Finally, we know that such diets can be delightful and varied. This book is the result.

It is written for both physicians and the public because the pressure for it came from both groups. In the first section, Diet and Health, we had our colleagues in mind. Some of them believe practically nothing can be proved and that scientific research is fun so long as you do not seriously expect it to produce useful results. Others are not so remote from reality. However, they also doubt that the public can ever be told a straight scientific story and understand it.

We believe that the educated public is capable of understanding a discussion of heart disease and the diet without generalities and the oversimplification that produces distorted ideas. So we have attempted to present the facts and concepts accurately even though they are sometimes complex. We constantly asked two questions: First, are the facts fairly stated? Second, are they clear? How far we have succeeded will be seen. C. BRAMAN some of her work MRS.

EDWIN Artist poses with You Name It and She'll Decorate It By DR. ANCEL AND MARGARET KEYS Civilized living is a search for durable satisfaction, a compromise between the pleasures of the moment and those of the future. So it is with eating. A balance should be struck between first impluse and appreciation of the conse quences of such indulgence, The child learns to save room for dessert; the adult knows that the continuance of pleasure, demands a measure of denial. But how, actually, is this nice balance struck? The appetite is normally a good guide on how much to eat.

However, it can be de ceived by rich foods. The most concentrated source of calories, the fats, are concealed by skillful cookery so that palate and stomach do not detect the excessive concentration of food values until obesity threatens. However, the accumulation of body fat is soon seen and felt. The sensible person who is getting fat recognizes that diet control is necessary, and the obvious solution is to eat smaller portions than prompted by his appetite. A further step in wisdom, we think, would be to change the character of the diet.

This would give the appetite more effective control. This means the selection of a bulkier diet with fewer calories per bite. In the history of humanity, few people had an opportunity to eat too much and too richly. Thus, it is natural that we have little instinct to curb an appetite for luxurious eating. If we are confronted with an abundance of fat foods and no persuasion otherwise, we may maintain a high fat diet and still control obesity.

This seems to be where tne average American is today. Prosperity has produced a new situation where an endless supply of food encourages us to eat foods formerly limited by scarcity and expense. Moreover, as the need for physical work and therefore for food calories decreases, the diet tends to be adjusted by cutting staples. Why eat bread when there is plenty of cake and you cannot eat both? But all this may not be pure gain. The pleasure of eating demands hunger, and the delights of rich foods pall in everyday use.

Most important, it is not reasonable that the road to a good diet is pursued by an increase in the use of softer, sweeter, and fatter foods. It appears that high fat diets may promote coronary heart disease and that much of the current "plague" of this disease, the leading threat to the health of American adults, has its origin in our modern dietary habits. This evidence does not prove that fats in the diet are the sole cause of coronary heart disease. It is probable that several factors contribute. But the case for dietary fats being an important fac tor is impressive and the in ferences are obvious.

The first part of this book is a review of what we know about the diet and heart disease. The dietary suggestions later in this book are designed for eating pleasure in a pattern capable of endless variation within a frame work of sound nutrition and moderation in fats. These menus and recipes are not guaranteed to save you trom coronary nearr disease. But they should keep yourj blood cholesterol at a favorable level and, we trust, will afford new interest in the kitchen and enduring pleasure at the table. Ask yourself why you ate what you did last week.

You probably will answer that you ate the foods you liked if it was convenient to get them. And then you may add you ate what was good for you. All peoples have strong I convictions aoout wnat iooas:" vitamins and minerals in our foods and nf farfs and in At in UpTftf0cVj PARIS Afl tion in St. Paul. And, has just helped design their Christmas card, sale of which is an annual fund raising project.

She is also a member of the St. Paul Junior league project and education committees. Guests at the Minneapolis; Symphony ball Saturday at Southdale will have a cha'nee 1 to see some of her more recent work. With Mrs. Roger Cudworth, Mrs.

Braman created the floor-to-ceiling Lautrec-inspired posters which will be part of the over-all French decor. Alumnae to Tour Campus University of Minnesota; Alumnae club will have its; annual meeting and a tour; of the St. Paul campus Sat-; urday. Among speakers will be Shirley R. Trantanella, hor-l ticulture instructor, on "Fro-1 zen Foods for Everyday Use," and Paul H.

Cashman, assistant professor of rhetoric on the St. Paul campus, on "Uses of Humor." There also will be a noon luncheon. flaming with a wicked and a heart of pita COteb-tytiG, I Mi- i DR. ANCEL KEYS flood of requests ous problems for human health. Some diseases, such as cancer, seem to be independent of the diet.

Others, such as the major human heart diseases, almost never occur spontaneously in the animals used in dietary experiments. Nevertheless, dietary experiments on animals have produced notable findings that have relevance to our concern about adult human health. One is that underfed rats live longer than full-fed animals. Another is that diets that raise the cholesterol in the blood lead to a disease of the arteries which, in man, is basic to coronary heart dis ease. Heart disease accounts for about half of all our deaths in America today.

But there are many kinds of heart disease, with different causes, and we are con cerned here only with one kind, coronary heart disease. A brief review of the kinds of heart disease should be helpful. Congenital heart disease is the kind you are born with. This disease is not common. It is a small part of our total heart problem.

Heart disease caused by syphilis used to be fairly common but it is becoming extremely rare in America and many other countries. Diet plays no role in producing syphilitic heart disease. Rheumatic fever heart disease deforms the valves of the heart and is generally believed to be a special kind of reaction to an infection. Hypertension can produce To Every t-m Hello! marvelous facilities i for: i Dancing Parties Dinner Parlies Buffels Wedding Receplions Phone Miss Marcella, fE 2 0S61 k. HOTEL 10th Sr.

at 5th Ave. So. Alwayi fosy Parking I Minneapolis 4, Minn. pink wink cold KM heart disease by constantly overstraining the heart, and next to coronary heart disease, it is the most common and fatal kind of heart dis ease in America. It causes some 15 per cent of all heart deaths.

In hypertension the arteries ot the body are constricted so that only by pumping at a higher pressure can the heart maintain adequate Diood now. The constant high blood pressure also damages the arteries. Sometimes the cause of hypertension can be found in the kidneys or In an over growth of a part of the adre nal gland, but the cause of most hypertension is un known. Obesity is believed to favor its development. Finally we come to 'coronary heart disease, the condition produced by interference with the blood flow in the arteries that supply the heart muscle itself.

According to oar vital statistics, this one disease is killing Americans at a rate of almost half a million a year. This is nearly twice the toll of all cancers and other tumors, the second leading cause of death, and close to nine times the deaths caused by motor vehicles. Moreover, it is not true, as sometimes imagined, that cor onary heart disease is mainly a problem for the aged. Among United States white males in 1955, coronary heart disease is blamed for 138,850 deaths under the age of 70 (81 per cent of all heart deaths in this age group). Worse still, in contrast with our other health problems, coronary heart disease seems to be increasing.

But in this black picture there is a growing belief that we can we will, reverse the trend. From studies on populations all over the world, and other researches, we believe that coronary heart disease should be preventable and that dietary ad justment offers a real hope The theory that tension promotes coronary heart disease leads to smug self-pity say Dr. Ancel Keys and his wife, Margaret, in Tuesday's selections from Eat ell and Live (ll. tit IRI Mnmnn V.e St Staffer H5.T.eRe:T-- ll 1-4 HMMWtptifJ Dr. White Cites Book as Nutrition Landmark A creative flair, a fine arts major and snatches of free time prompted Mrs.

Edwin Braman, 2218 Sargent St. Paul, to take up decorating. First, she trimmed felt Christmas stockings. On bright colored grounds, she stitched elegant angels, birds, trees, trains and other imag inative designs. Her tools were a tiny pair of nail scissors, colorful bits of felt, glittering sequins, a needle and thread.

These clever stockings were received with such acclaim that she sold them to Hattie Carnegie, Lilly Dache and other shops across the country. With the arrival of son, Mike, Mrs. Braman's stocking trimming became more of a hobby. She did, however, continue to collect colorful scraps of felt, silk and laces. All of these will eventually be used as decoration, somewhere by this talented young woman.

Now, spare time while Mike, 4, and Tommy, VA, are out from under is spent on many projects. They include appliqueing cashmere sweaters, making fabric pictures, decorating porch furniture, covering knick-knack and match boxes. Some she uses for gifts, others she keeps. Somehow, she even finds time to work on an ever growing braid rug. In addition to spending time on her "fun" projects, Mrs.

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N. ISO 5 8572 l.X I I MARGARET KEYS An answer to a are "good" for them. The notions of primitive peoples on this point are compounded of the experi ence of the tribe, distorted by taboos and superstitions. Our own opinions about what we should or should not eat have the same basis plus the influence of advertising and an increasing reflection of the reports from modern scientific studies on nutrition. The most obvious influence on our diet is food availabil ity.

Our current American diet reflects a superabun dance of foods in variety undreamed of not long ago. Certainly the American diet is the most expensive the world. As to health, our current American diet seems to prevent the classical deficiency diseases but there are. other populations whose diets are low in meat and dairy fats and who are not plagued with deficiency diseases either. We praise our American KanqncA 'aiii" sbi1HrPn 11113, jguuiuig Mic tail mai the same trend is apparent populations all over the world.

Anyway, it is naive to insist that body size is a reliable measure of health in youth, let alone in later life. And our big health problem today is with our adults. The needs of the body, as Most experimental work on nutrition has been limited t0 short.term studies 0n ani mals. Laboratory animals and man alike have similar basic nutritional needs, but quantitatively they differ. The human counterpart of an animal's diet is difficult to specify.

Therp are sneria! riiffirul ties when we ask about the role of the diet in preventing or promoting the diseases that now nose the most seri- 'cues Cold Waves Machine Waves 65f ADOt tc iuC DO Haircuts Shampoo and Fingerwave Manicure 1 1 4 il ar-oc Dl PARLOR SI S. 8th St. fancies, exposing manyiwe11 as the dangers of dis-falsities of current foodiease- are different after claims," continues the famed physical growth is completed, heart specialist. Until lately the main con- Citing the value of Dr. cern of nutritionists has been Keys' discussion of food to discover and correct die-stuffs, bread, soups, salads, tary deficiencies.

And their vegetables, milk and milk 'advice has been to make sure products. Dr. White states: we get enough nutrients. mat tne dook is a landmark on the way to a better under- sianaing or nutrition, Dr. White also calls atten- tion to "valuable" menus and an important list of contents of food in calories, protein ana tat and ot drink.

(Dr. and Mrs. Keys live at! 32 0 Owasso Heights, St. Paul. Dr.

Keys, who holds1 doctor of philosophy degrees in physiology and biology, is a professor at the University of Minnesota.) with a HIP Problem insist on STAUFFER THE ORIGINAL HOME REDUCING PLAN THAT IS OFTEN IMITATED. BUT NEVER DUPLICATED Dr. Paul Dudley White became a familiar figure on the American news scene in late 1955. He had been called to Washington as a consultant for President Eisenhower following Ike's heart seizure in September 1955. But the medical profession knew of Dr.

White's stature as a heart specialist as long ago as 1922 when he helped tound the American Heart association. In 1954, his 1 1 a ues elected i president of the I national Society of Cardiology. Thus, his Dr. White background emphasizes Dr. White's recommendation "to both physicians and to laymen of this useful and interesting book" by Dr.

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