European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mother was right Oatmeal is Good for you by Jeff Nesmith Cox news service Lara Davidson of Dayton. Ohio finally has scientific. J evidence that backs her  ago when she nagged her son to. Eat his Oatmeal she was right v scientists said recently that daily helpings of Oatmeal or Oal bran Lead to significant decreases in the artery a a a a a clogging form of cholesterol which has. A been identified As a chief cause of a America s biggest killer coronary heart. Disease. A a v athe findings were reported by a team led by Chicago researcher Michael. Davidson Clara Davidson a son. A. At a National conference on cholesterol in Washington d.g., or. Davidson said that alter a group of volunteers ate from 1 to 3 ounces oat bran or Oatmeal a Day for six weeks the  in their blood dealt Ted by up to 16 percent. Meanwhile another group of volunteers who ale a wheat based Cereal experienced no decline in blood. Cholesterol. A a a a a a a a when the test was Over and the. Volunteers stopped eating the oat cereals their cholesterol returned to the Levels that were recorded prior to , Hie said. A a i Quot our goal was to find out How much oat Cereal you need to eat to reduce your. Cholesterol,.&Quot . Quot it appears a. That the right amount is a 2-ounce serving a of Oal bran or 3 ounces of Oatmeal a Day. The. Study was funded by the Quaker Oats . A a a a a a. A scientists have disagreed Over whether oat bran Oatmeal and other foods containing Quot soluble fiber Quot actually Lowera a cholesterol Ever since a University of Kentucky researcher reported in 1981 that volunteers who ate daily helpings of oat bran had cholesterol declines. A a a evidence from a Harvard University a team in 1989 indicated that daily oat bran muffins led to cholesterol reductions. However wheat bran muffins had the same beneficial effect the Harvard group said concluding that the muffins were a simply filling people up and displacing High fat foods that raise cholesterol. Although supporters of the oat theory have not been Able to explain Why eating. Oats seems to reduce the Low density. Lipoprotein Bdl cholesterol that causes dangerous accumulations on the Walls of a arteries some have suggested that the a. Answer is in Beta Lucan which is. A a a. Component of oat bran Navy Beans fruits and some other foods but is not found in wheat ran. L l this theory suggests that Beta Lucan stimulates the body to digest cholesterol in the intestine and that when the liver. A a a a a detects the loss of digestive tract cholesterol it draws Down cholesterol from the bloodstream. A. Davidson said his comparisons showed that the More Beta Lucan a person consumed the greater the reduction in. Cholesterol this might explain Why smaller helpings of oat bran achieved the same result As somewhat larger bowls of a. Oatmeal he said a. Quot the Bottom Tine  be that you a a can reduce Bdl cholesterol by eating oat bran or Oatmeal but you can to eat it for a few weeks and Stop Quot said Davidson. Quot you have to continue to eat it or the cholesterol goes Back   amps Susan Harris americans making some Progress in lowering cholesterol by Mary Macvean the associated Pressie message some experts say is getting through  Levels of americans keep declining a \ l a a a a a the Levels of people studied in Minneapolis St. A Paul dropped significantly in the Early 1980s, according to a study published in the new England journal of.  month. Quo Quot we be seen changes in dietary intake of total fat. Saturated fats and cholesterol which  Are eating better Quot said or. Gregory l. Burke a. Researcher at Bowman Gray school of Medicine in a Winston Salem. N c., and director of the  . Department of health and. Human services. Reported from surveys that in 1988 30 percent of people said they had tried to change their diets to lower their. Cholesterol Levels up from 14 percent in 1983. Quot certainly people Are More conscious of cholesterol and Labelling has improved although there is still some Misla Beling. Products still say they  no cholesterol when they contain saturated fat Quot said Albert Oberman chairman of the american heart association Council on epidemiology and director of the division of general and preventative Medicine at the University of Alabama. Cholesterol is a waxy substance found Only in animal products but the body can turn saturated fats into body cholesterol which is linked to coronary heart disease. While cholesterol Levels appear to be dropping across the population people apparently Are Mot eating less because average weights Are on the Rise Oberman said. A Burke and his. Colleagues found that during the first half of the 1980s,. Menus blood cholesterol Levels fell an average of five Points to 200. And women a dropped six Points to 195. A a . Quot on an. Individual basis that May not seem like a lot but when you talk about a population it s big stuff Quot Burke said. A v that a a 2.5 percent decline for men which translates into a 5 percent decline in heart disease Burke said. For every 1 percent decline in cholesterol Levels in a population there s a-2 percent decline in heart disease he said. Quot l a. A a a a. A a. The study was based on surveys of random samples in Minneapolis St. Paul of 3,365 people from 1980 through 1982 and 4,545 people from 1985-87. The people were 25 to 74 years old. The study also found that the prevalence of people with dangerously High cholesterol Levels Over 240 declined Over the five years among men from 18 percent to 15 percent and among women from 17 percent to 14. Percent  the ratio of total cholesterol to High density Lipoprotein cholesterol the Quot Good Quot cholesterol that helps protect against heart attacks did not change Over the five years. Burke said. A a readers action Lin who can Wear army combat Patch Sov Orol members of our unit were discussing whether or not we will be authorized to Wear the combat Patch on our right shoulders. We Are army reservists from Montana who  to Active duty in direct support of operation desert storm in saudi Arabia. A Terry Littlefield operation desert storm Denis Keating Public affairs off jeer marketing and advertising office of the Deputy chief of staff department of the army replies the shoulder sleeve insignia a former wartime service ss1-fwts combat Patch a has been authorized for a operation desert storm. A message 021900z mar 91 a provides policy and guidance for the ss1 fits. A. Editor s note the specifications detailing the wearing of the combat Patch can be complicated. We. 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