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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, March 20, 1986
Olive oil cuts cholesterol
From Kansan wires
BOSTON — Replacing saturated fats with olive oil in food reduces cholesterol, according to new research that suggests Mediterranean fare is a healthy alternative to very low-fat diets for people whose cholesterol levels are too high.
Olive oil is high in monounsaturated fat. The research indicates that eating food rich in that fat effectively lowers cholesterol levels in the blood, just as a very low-fat diet does.
To benefit from this diet, however, people must give up nearly all saturated fat and replace it with the mono-unsaturated fat.
A high cholesterol level in the blood sharply increases the risk of heart disease.
Heart disease is relatively uncom mon in such Mediterranean regions as southern Italy and Greece, where olive oil is used.
"This paper supports the concept that a Mediterranean-type diet, high in mono-unsaturates, represents a reasonable alternative to a very low-fat diet for Americans," said Scott M. Grundy, who conducted the study. "We may have been a little too rigid in our dietary recommendations, saying that everybody has to eat the same diet to get the benefit of cholesterol lowering."
Grundy's research, conducted at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Dallas, was published in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine.
The American Heart Association recommends that all U.S. residents
lower their fat consumption to 30 percent of their daily calories. Saturated fat should make up no more than 10 percent of the total.
W. Virgil Brown of New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, chairman of the heart association's nutrition committee, said the association is not likely to change its recommendations as a result of the research. But he said a diet high in monounsaturates and low in saturated fat might be useful if people stayed with it.
A drawback is that fat is laden with calories, Brown said. People on a high-mono-unsaturate diet might put on weight, which would increase their risk of heart disease.
Typically, U.S. residents get 40 percent of their calories from fat, and nearly half of it is saturated fat.
Kansas firm may repossess march's toilets
United Press International
BARSTOW, Calif.  A Kansas-based sanitation company threatened yesterday to repossess dozens of portable toilets being used by 500 anti-nuclear activists in the Great Peace March
for Great Peace March Inc., said his organization was negotiating with Mid-American Sanitation to buy 60 toilets for the planned 3,200-mile walk to Washington. Company officials want to sell the facilities and trariers for $47,500, plus $2,000 a week for servicing, said Lowell Mason, an operator for the company.
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