An early adopter of the Mediterranean diet, Dr Stamler is a long-living testament to the lifestyle changes he advocates.
Dr Stamler , who was then director of heart research with the Chicago Board of Health, and lab technician Betty Humber conducting a glucose test on June 12, 1967, at the Civic Center in Chicago. — TNSYou know the kind: that checklist item that you can’t quite seem to check, the one part of the big project that you haven’t yet nailed down.He knows the problem is out there, just waiting for him. And frankly, that’s just the kind of thing he thrives on.
He’s an early adopter of what’s known today as the Mediterranean diet and his own best advertisement, a long-living testament to the lifestyle changes he advocates. But aside from being an obvious outlier in the healthy-habits-plus-great-genes department, the record of Dr Stamler’s life reveals another core characteristic that clearly fuels him.Not for anything. Not for big food companies or basic human intransigence, or even the US Congress. Not for the toll age takes, not even for time.“I think it’s a measure of his character,” says Dr Lloyd-Jones. “It’s remarkable. He’s my hero.
“What’s the relation of habitual lifestyle, fat intake, saturated fat intake, cholesterol intake, salt intake, with cardiovascular disease? The interplay between multiple factors.He studied his theories on animals. Big tobacco, big food companies and other interest groups weren’t too happy about Dr Stamler’s findings either.
“I rolled up my sleeves and went formally to work,” he says. “A different kind of work. Quite different from feeding cholesterol to chickens.” “We encouraged broiling rather than frying, roasting on a rotisserie rather than frying, modest portion sizes.”“It may be OK to victimise a tourist by selling him a 16-ounce steak,” he says, “but for the natives, let’s make it a 4- or 5-ounce steak.“Not that we’re indifferent to the outside, but we feel a first responsibility to locals.”
“They had informants who told them who to call,” says Tom Sullivan, an attorney who worked on Dr Stamler’s HUAC case, “and the people took the Fifth Amendment and that was the end of it.The consequences for refusing to answer the committee’s questions was blacklisting, and in Dr Stamler’s case, Sullivan says, “Mayor Daley would have fired him immediately.”
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