ABSTRACT
The dietary data from 1962–63 questionnaires were compared to those obtained from the 1985 follow-up examination. During the early 1960s consumption of both lard and olive oil was greater among Rosetans than Bangorians. In 1963,47 percent of the Roseto families used lard and 57 percent used olive oil in their cooking while in Bangor 16 percent used lard and 11 percent used olive oil. The number of cigarette smokers in Bangor was 35 percent among men and 16 percent among women in 1964. The figures for 1985 in Bangor were not ascertained. The relevance of the serum concentration of cholesterol and its protein vectors to the pathogenesis of coronary atherosclerosis and to complications and consequences therefrom, including myocardial infarction and sudden death, has been assiduously explored and reported on in a vast accumulation of medical literature. Bruce Taylor reported studies of the Masai in East Africa whose chief article of diet is cow’s milk mixed with cow’s blood.
