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Cholesterol and Beyond

The Research on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 1900-2000

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Authors:
  1. A. Stewart Truswell

    1. Human Nutrition Unit, University of Sydney Human Nutrition Unit, Sydney, Australia

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  • It describes all the evidence-based research on diet and coronary heart disease from 1900-2000
  • It is both a part of medical history and a narrative review
  • The author, a physician, has had extensive involvement with research on different dietary components and plasma cholesterol
  • The book is easy to read and unbiased. It is not pushing any particular diet or theory

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease as a Diagnosis

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 1-4

  3. Experimental Pathology in St. Petersburg

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 5-8

  4. Is Plasma Cholesterol Raised with Human Atherosclerosis?

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 9-11

  5. Diet Can Have Worthwhile Effects on Human Plasma Cholesterol

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 13-19

  6. A New Type of Observational Epidemiology

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 21-24

  7. Serum Triglycerides? Another Risk Factor

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 25-27

  8. Fredrickson’s Classification of the Hyperlipoproteinaemias

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 29-31

  9. The Seven Countries Study (7CS)

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    Pages 33-38

  10. Sucrose – An Alternative Dietary Hypothesis

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 39-40

  11. HDL-Cholesterol Is Protective

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 41-44

  12. Critics and Sceptics

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 45-47

  13. Thrombosis on and in Atheroma

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 49-50

  14. Dietary Cholesterol May Affect Plasma Cholesterol

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    Pages 51-56

  15. First Controlled Trials

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 57-62

  16. Dietary Fibre

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 63-64

  17. Obesity

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 65-70

  18. Thrombosis Treated Early

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 71-75

  19. Fish Oil

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 77-81

  20. Alcohol

    • A. Stewart Truswell
    Pages 83-90
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About this book

“Only once in a great while does a book come along that really does the job in addressing a major medical issue. When this happens, all can be joyful… Readers will find ALL their favorite dietary puzzlements dealt with… With consummate scholarship, clarity and brevity, Truswell sifts out the chaff and identifies the critical questions, the responsible investigators, and the key studies.” So says Emeritus Professor Henry Blackburn from the University of Minnesota in the foreword to this remarkable concise book on the history of research on diet and heart disease. This was a theme of scientific, medical and public interest in the 20th Century, a century marked by the rise and fall of coronary heart disease as the major cause of death in the first world, followed by the rise of this cause of death in the developing world. There is obviously much to learn, and this book is an excellent starting point, tracing dietary factors and their role in heart disease one by one: fats, sugar, salt, alcohol, coffee, trans-fats, etc. Without an understanding of the role of diet and the changes that have been seen in the North American and NW European diet, the story of the decline in the heart disease death rate may have been very different.

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From the reviews:

“A. Stewart Truswell has written a very informative and at the same time entertaining and highly readable account of the nutritional epidemiology of CHD … . I would strongly recommend this book … . also be of considerable interest to epidemiologists, nutritionists, and public health scientists who are attempting to study nutrition and other diseases. … Most importantly, this would be an extremely good book to … research colleagues who doubt the value of good nutrition epidemiology research in the public’s health.” (Lewis H. Kuller, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 173 (9), 2011)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Human Nutrition Unit, University of Sydney Human Nutrition Unit, Sydney, Australia

    A. Stewart Truswell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cholesterol and Beyond

  • Book Subtitle: The Research on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 1900-2000

  • Authors: A. Stewart Truswell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8875-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8874-1Published: 05 July 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9977-6Published: 29 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8875-8Published: 22 June 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 227

  • Topics: Public Health, Cardiology, Nutrition, History of Medicine, Lipidology

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