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Through the 1960s and 1970s controversy raged over the significance of dietary fat and the association between cholesterol and CHD and numerous researchers studied different aspects of the alleged link order zestril 10 mg online. A major joint US/ European study—the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MR FIT)—investigated the effect of various diets and lifestyle changes on 60,000 men. Other investigators identified additional risk factors for coronary heart disease, notably smoking, lack of exercise, raised blood pressure, and many more. At the end of 1982, according to James LeFanu, a long-standing critic of the cholesterol-heart disease thesis, ‘the juggernaut crashed’ (LeFanu 1999:335). The MR FIT trial showed no benefit from intervention (and a WHO study a few months later came to the same conclusion). Furthermore, figures showed that the incidence of CHD was falling in different countries, in all ages, classes and ethnic minorities—apparently independently of dietary changes. Yet far from bringing to an end attempts to change diet justified by the cholesterol-heart disease thesis, campaigns promoting ‘healthy eating’ won ever greater official backing and became steadily more influential. This is the remarkable paradox underlying health promotion in relation to CHD, to which we will return in the next chapter. Here, we simply note the fundamental improbability of the diet-CHD thesis: human beings have lived throughout history, and continue to live, in the most diverse habitats on the most diverse diets, displaying phenomenal adaptability. It would therefore seem ‘improbable that for some reason right at the end of the twentieth century subtle changes in the pattern of food consumption should cause lethal diseases’ (LeFanu 1999:319–20). There can be no doubt however that, even though—in scientific terms—the cholesterol juggernaut had crashed, in the sphere of public health policy, it was surging ahead. In 1979 the British government published guidelines on Eating for Health which attempted to overcome the ‘ignorance and irresponsibility’ which it blamed for unhealthy lifestyle. The media responded to this initiative with ‘unbounded enthusiasm’, publicising the dangers of cholesterol to a receptive audience (Karpf 1988). The ‘Look After Yourself 42 THE REGULATION OF LIFESTYLE campaign was launched by the Health Education Council in 1977 and developed in the early 1980s in collaboration with the BBC through a series of popular radio and television programmes. This campaign took the healthy eating message to the people, providing special training for nurses and health visitors to run groups in GPs surgeries, community centres and workplaces.

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