Go to this address for a story on an interesting study:

http://www.newsday.com/ap/healthscience/ap338.htm

In short, it showed a low fat diet will lower the cholesterol of kids
without stunting their growth or intellectual development.

BUT some things are missing.  While LDL cholesterol went down, no verdict on
HDL (good) cholesterol; perhaps it went down, too?  Glucose and insulin
levels were not studied, only cholesterol.  The story also points out that
"(w)hether the children reduced their risk of developing heart disease is
not known since they were not followed into adulthood."  This story ignores
the fact that just last month yet another study came out showing that
glucose and insulin levels seem to have a greater impact on heart disease
risk than cholesterol levels.

Even more interesting is the identity of the researcher quoted in the story,
Alice H. Lichtenstein, "a Tufts University nutrition professor and
spokeswoman for the American Heart Association."  She is on the USDA Dietary
Guidelines Committee.  Tufts University is the site of a major USDA research
center.  In other words, this is hardly an unbiased research project.  Tufts
is in bed with the government and Lichtenstein is in bed Uncle Sam (as it
were).  The government and the American Heart Association have been
bedfellows for decades now.  The Heart Association promotes a diet low in
fat and high in grains, i.e. the USDA food pyramid.

See the cycle?  Research just keeps going 'round and 'round between the
government and the 'private' sector.  Fascinating, no?

Dori Zook
Denver, CO

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