By Lindsay Turner, AP
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The 20 subjects who ate the fat-packed McDOnald's
breakfast had impaired blood bessel function for up to four hours
afterwards. But no such impairment was found on another day when
they swallowed 20 times the recommended daily dosage of vitamins
C & E immediately before eating the same meal.
The research appears in today's Journal
of the American Medical Association.
"The predominant mechanism by which
a high-fat (especially saturated fat) diet leads to arteriosclerosis
is by elevating serum cholesterol," wrote the authors, let
by Dr. Gary Plotnick, a professor of Medicine at the University
of Maryland Medical Center.
...Dr. Kenneth Cooper, author of The Antioxidant
Revolution and founder of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas says
"This is just further information that documents the beneficial
effects of antioxidants."
Dr. Meir Stampfer, a professor of epidermiology
and nutrition at Harvard's School of Public Health, called the study
"a good piece of work and a nice step forward."
Article was excerpted from a complete article
in the Arizona Republic, Wednesday, November 26, 1997.
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