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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 28, 1986
ambassador to Sweden. His sympathies in El Salvador and Nicaragua were
decidedly not the same as those of Washington. In other parts of the
world, too, Mr. Palme and others in his Social Democratic Party were
engaged not so much in efforts at peace in the abstract, but peace accord
ing to their own particular ideological bent. They pursued a policy of,
as the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE called it, "provocative, humane
neutrality.n
This meant, for example, aiding guerrilla movements in
southern Africa.
Olof Palme was _widely eulogized as a man of peace, a global humanitarian,
but his quest for peace was, like all other human quests for peace,
dictated by definite political and ideological objectives. More than most
realized, Palme, too, lived to support the revolutionaries' sword or
bullet--and perished by it.
The Fast (Food) Track to a Heart Attack
Here's an item we thought might
be particularly interesting to those of you who must eat more than the
usual number of meals on the road. Entitled "Here's the Beef: Fast Foods
are Hazardous to Your Health," the article by Michael H. Brown appeared in
the April issue of SCIENCE DIGEST.
It may make you think twice about
turning into that fast-food place. This information might also help your
teens and sub-teens resist the typical, full complement high-fat fast-food
meal (burger, fries and shake).
America is fat conscious. Increasingly, we pass up red meat,
full of saturated fats, in favor of lowfat chicken and
fish •••fry food in polyunsaturated vegetable oil. We also eat
more fast food than ever, but to accommodate our changing
tastes, McDonald's and Burger King and the other fast-food
chains have provided us with chicken nuggets and fish
sandwiches. We munch them blissfully, along with an order of
french fries--assuming, naturally, that everything is cooked in
vegetable oil.
It isn't. It's cooked in beef tallow. The Center for Science
in the Public Interes� (CSPI), a consumer group based in
Washington, D.C., created shock waves recently when it had
fast-food french fries· tested by Frank Sacks, an assistant
professor at Harvard Medical School.
He found that the
nation's largest fast-food chains--including McDonald's, Burger
King, Wendy's, Arby's, Hardee's, Big Boy and Popeye's--were
frying them in beef tallow••••
Critics of such practices note that children, who are major
consumers of fast food, are susceptible to the first stages of
atherosclerosis from the age of 2 onward, although actual
changes don't appear until age 11.
The condition is one in
which fat and cholesterol contribute to the formation of plaque
on the inner walls of arteries, narrowing the channels through
which blood flows. William P. Newman III, of Louisiana State
University Medical Center, found recently that of 35 youths who
died from age
1
to 24, all but six had the earliest signs of
atherosclerosis.
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