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To: Joe NYC who wrote (389)	7/28/2008 1:43:33 PM
From: jrhana	Respond to of 39331

Yes there sure have been a lot of diets and diet books out there. This guy (Michael Ozner) has some pretty impressive credentials. search.barnesandnoble.com I've met him and attended some of the symposiums he has organized. As I recall he was a practising cardiologist who was in the ICU at 3 AM attending a critical cardiac patient when he himself had a MI. So he decided to switch directions and get his health in order and to enter the then unpopular field of preventional cardiology. The preventional cardiologist is a physician whose goal is to keep you out of the hospital. If you show up in the ER with a stroke or MI, he will consider it a personal failure. I have known a few and from what I could see they had good results. At Dr. Ozner's symposiums there were a number of impressive speakers from all over the country all of whom had spent their lifetimes studying and practising in this field. There were of course some disagreements among the speakers, but I remember always the high degree of courtesy that was shown by everyone despite differing points of view. One of the more impressive guys I remember was William P. Castelli who was the director of the Framingham Heart Study from 1979-1995. I consider Dr. Castelli's opinions to be as valid as anyones in this field and he was absolutely convinced that the consumption of of saturated fats was very detrimental to your health. He specifically was very much against the Atkins diet. nhlbi.nih.gov framingham.com send2press.com Dr. Castelli was about 85 when I heard him talk. He had several risk factors including high cholesterol. He was thin as a rail and still going strong on a Mediterranean diet. I remember seeing somewhere him advocating a vegetarian diet for markedly reducing the risk of cancer (colon etc) but I can't find the link. Those guys in the Framingham study were pioneers. They were the ones that took us from ground zero and demonstrated a lot to the concepts that we almost take for granted nowadays. So anyway there are a number of intelligent, students of the field (including some who have made notable contributions) who are convinced that the consumption of saturated animal fats is indeed hazardous for one's cardiovascular health. So I would hope that the Atkins diet would not become complete dogma here. Edit: I would add that even those that did not like the Atkins diet agreed that Atkins was a pioneer who made a huge and courageous contribution in his fight against carbohydrates.