Heart Disease
Sir,—One feels that Dr. Jepson’s reply to a correspondent could have been condensed to fewer words and still have had more power to enlighten those who are confused about diet and its effect in heart-disease incidence. He could have said it does not matter what we eat as long as we are absolutely unremittingly careful not to allow the fuel intake to exceed what would be necessary for the daily requirement of energy output. Obviously, if we sit at an office desk throughout the week and eat three meals a day throughout the year, and use the car to commute from home to office, the boiler pipes must soon become silted up, as they so increasingly do at age 40-60. The five to six consumption of liquid fuel and tobacco is also of greater importance than minor sideissues relating to the “animal or vegetable” top question. —Yours, etc., SLIM PICKENS. March 10, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31316, 11 March 1967, Page 12
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