Diet and Disease

The best index of successful preventive measures in IHD will be falling national IHD death rates, and it may be that proof or refutation of the value of dietary alterations will come, over the next 5-10 years, in the USA and Scandinavia, where recommendations for this course have been actively made.It is because other countries, either through their governments or through semi- official bodies dealing with arterial disease, have begun to make firm advisory pronouncements that we must keep the problem very much in mind.