European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Food of the 80s Stop and go by Carole Sugarman the Washington Posti t was the decade of damned in you do damned if you Don t decaffeinated Coffee won t give you the jitters but it May raise your cholesterol Calcium prevents osteoporosis7 depends on whom you ask beef has saturated fat. Which is bad beef has a kind of saturated fat that May be Good eat fewer eggs eat Mote eggs cruciferous fruits and vegetables decrease the risk of cancer pesticide Laden fruits and vegetables increase the risk of cancer beef gives you strength Chicken gives you Salmonella after a while when people get bombarded with so Many messages they just Stop paying attention. It s like going into a store and there Are 75 shirts and you end up buying nothing says John c Larosa Dean for clinical affairs at the George Washington University medical Center. The 1980s were historic years for studies and news about the connection Between diet and disease clearly there s been a nutritional Awakening i Haven t Felt As much at risk giving the message As i used to it s not considered  says Johanna Dwyer. Director of the nutrition clinic at the new England medical Center Hospital and professor at Tufts medical school at the same time nutritional concerns fat cholesterol were joined by food safety issues pesticides and everyone was left trying to rationalize the two individual foods simultaneously became both Good and bad Sale and unsafe a concept that the Public had a hard time understanding when it comes to the food risks of the 80s, says Peter Sandman director of the environmental communication research program at Rutgers University the first nutrition is much More serious the second food safety is much More  Sandman believes that the second wave of food concerns was fuelled by resistance to the first. People would rather focus on a risk that is not their fault rather than on one that is their  he says it s much More satisfying to be angry of the Epa or uniroyal he explains than to feel guilty about eating ice Cream. As the Public of the 80s see sawed Between feeling angry and guilty about their eating habits scientific studies were presenting conflicting results. While Many saw this As a sign of chaos scientists were grappling with How to explain the course of Progress. In science we very Seldom have the final answer. As we Loarn Riviore. We have to change our answer or of least limit in or Widen it says Nancy Ernst nutrition coordinator for the National Institute of health s National heart lung and blood Institute what complicates things even More is the process by which findings Are communicated the system is set up in such a Way that contradictions Are  says Sandman information that opposes prior information gets More attention than the status quo scientists Advance their reputation More it they come up with something new and surprising rather than old and established scientific journals Are Mote Apt to publish those findings Tho Media does the same thing " indeed the Way medical information is marketed has been cited As a classic reason Why dietary findings can get distorted or misinterpreted. Larosa believes that the flashy dramatic studies will always be the ones to gel Media coverage often at the Cost of More important scientific advances the most significant news at the recent american heart association conference was not the study that decaffeinated Coffee May raise blood cholesterol Larosa says but three studies that showed regression in humans of coronary atherosclerosis two with drugs one with diet plus other lifestyle changes the Coffee study which is Only clinically marginal he explains got much More attention from the Media. Part of the problem is that by their very nature the Media and science Are often at Odds most scientists Are cautious about drawing conclusions and talk in careful and hedged terms. In the Media Short definitive statements Are the most convincing the scientist who comes across Best is the one who looks certain says Larosa Dwyer of the new England medical Center believes it s not necessarily the Media s fault that some scientists Are bettor than others at promoting themselves All of us love our work it s difficult not to Gallop Forward especially it you think you have the cure to Mankind s ills she says. There is also a difference Between scientific Progress and scientific silliness she says the latest study in t necessarily the Best study. The scientific silliness is that the latest must be the Best it s not True " some of the Best work on metabolism Lor example was done 75 years ago Dwyer adds. Citing the findings from the decaffeinated Coffee study Rutgers Sandman says ii caffeine makes me nuts but living without Coffee makes me miserable then i should demand a High Standard of evidence before i Cut it decaffeinated Coffee out of my  on the other hand if i m perfectly comfortable switching to Tea then my standards of evidence should be weaker Page 16 the stars and stripes Friday. January 5,1990 food of the 90s healthier and better by Mary Macvean associated Pressi n the last few years. Americans have tried All sorts of new foods Many of them in an Effort to improve health. Some Cooks think americans eating habits will Only get better. I be never been More optimistic about the Progress american food has made in he last decade said Ellen brawn a Cookbook author and food consultant. I think there will be a Geometric growth in the 90s in the Quality and the excitement of what we re eating. And i m not just talking about the upper Echelon of restaurants and Homes but a general Awakening of he american Pailalo she said in a recent interview. Julee Rosso former owner with Sheila Lukins of the Stiver palate gourmet shop said the wide Range of ingredients now available in the United states have Tod to a shift away from French foods and toward italian peasant cooking. And experts who warn that nutrition and health Are strongly linked Are finally getting through Rosso said. Because of All the really frightening news about what eating habits can do to our health certainly that s influenced All of us she said adding that knowledge influenced the new basics Rosso s and Lukins new Book which they intended As a Book Lor the 1990s. Rosso noted that it includes almost 200 vegetable recipes and More fish recipes than in their first two books. I think that s just a big commentary. I think of my protein More As a Side dish. I really emphasize my vegetables starches and  one of the premises of this Book is that you can Cook again in your own Home. Instead of that Stop Start cooking Only on the weekends she said. The availability of fresh fish and ingredients for ethnic dishes in most places in the country is remarkable Brown said. This really is a National concern about Quality and i see it As going no place but Forward. Once the palate has progressed it never wih  cooking Light Magazine has issued a list of items it expects to be popular in the coming decade reflecting a shift in eating habits garlic grains sorbets salsas fresh fruit pies potatoes Turkey iced Coffee drinks breakfast bagels and lean red meat. Brown noted that even fast food restaurants Are changing adding salads to heir menus and changing recipes for old items. Of course people still will seek treats. Moments of indulgence need to be spaced Rosso said. And i think people Are learning that if you have something that s very Good and very tasty you tend to eat less of it because you Are More easily  when i m in a restaurant i m going to splurge but when i m at Home i went my food to be As healthy and flavorful As possible Brown said