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THE CHINA MAIL, →MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11,-; 1957.

EASTERN DIET MAY PREVENT

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Hona.

GREAT trisl ́is going on in the medient world, affecting the life and death of mil-

The defendants? Certain fatty diets.

The accusera?. Biochemists

and heart specialists.

The crime these futty diets are charged with is that they are the cause boals.

of coronary

Mr Bennett, who had come to see me, had been a victim. He had had an nt tack of coronary heart dis- case several months ago and now was asking advice with regard to his dict.

dlet and coronary

throm-

THROMBOSIS

Can food bs 3. major cause of heart disease ? Here are facts that point that way ...

I explained that thero stream," I told him. "That's

aubstance was

called what happened in Norway In our blood during the German occupa- cholesterol stream, the level of which tion." could be made to vary ac cording to the food we eat.

"You mean the higher the "There is," I said, "clr- cumstantial evidence that cholesterol content of the

blood, the throm- bosis are directly related, greater the but so far the juries of chance of doctors have not given

They final verdict. awaiting more proof."

All In a

thrombosis?”

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are

Mr Bennett asked.

doctor's day: by

"Possibly." Fatty foods like butter,

CEDRIC

CARNE

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It may all sound fantas- tic, but the fact is that while no one has proved that increased cholesterol causes heart disease there is abundant evidence that there is an association be- tween the two. Namely the total cholesterol is raised by 30 percent in edronary artery disease.

It is possible, therefore, that the increase in

coronary thrombosis In

It is known that in cor- tain parts of the world coronary thrombosis occurs

yolk, exk much less commonly, and

the America and England is a beef dripping, raise it is thought that this may

cholesterol level in the direct result of better econo- bo the result of different

conditions. bloodstream, as do other mic

Having foods eaten in the different animal fats. On the other more money, 'people eat geographical areas. The Japanese suffer less from hand, fish oils and vegetable more. Some excessively. As coronary heart disease than fats lower the cholesterol simple as that.

almost any other people in the world. Unlike Western Europe, fish is the major food the Japanese cat.

STRANGE FACT

Again, coronary throm- boain is not 12valon! in the Latin olive-uil enting peoples, nor in Arica and China where the people take maize, soybean, and sun- Blower seed.

fact

"Another range that may intrest you," I said to Mr Bennett, "is that the drop in the mortality of heart disease in Norway during the German occupa- tion was remarkable."

"So what does it all udd up to?" he asked.

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content.

"So we should eat more fish like the Japanese," Mr Bennett said, "or take more olive oil, sunflower seed, soybean, and maize."

"Not necessarily. Reduc- tim of the total dietary fat will lower the cholesterol circulating in

the blood-

POCKET CARTOON

OSBERT LANCASTER

"She needn't worry-itis intentions are purely political "

Luisa Spagnoli

The World's Foremost Designers of Ladies Jumpers and Sweaters

On Sale at All Leading Fashion: Stores

Solo Agentar K. Caudron & Co., French Bk. Bldg.

GUILTY,

BUT......

"But one can I pointed out.

be optimistic,"

For if the

mature of our modern diet is a major factor heart disease, there is hope that in the development of corONAI JĮ this disease may eventually be controlled and prevented.

"All I have told you,” I said, "is the result of recent work and we shouldn't have to walt too long for the final answers. Doctors are trying to find medi- cines that will reduce the cholesterol and like substances in the bloodstream.

"Meantime we should cut down the fat in our diets. I mean the animal fats," Mr Bennett said,

"Yes," I said. "Guilty undil proved innocent,”

Ho rose from The chair. "Doctor," he asked "do you know a shop where they sell sunfower seed cheap?”

LIN CHU

Just a Hongkong girl. Nothing much in that. Beautiful. Nothing much in that either. But this one left Hongkong just a year ago

.without friends. . without contacts without a fortune.

THIS TRAMP

CURTAIN

HAD ONLY

UP-for

ONE HOME

fashion's big debut

In Britain she has made the first. She's making the second. And the third is just

around the corner.

and this week it's TV and the Queen

the

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THE decks and jounges his typing (for nothing). And of the RMS Chusay half an he ate her supper, This was bli hour before she sails support very well, except that she got a orgy of parting the gay, pretty hungry herself sometimes.

brave, and the disolving But the ability to make The British Empire in little. shilling look like a pouck when Couples cling Or wilt.

Teats converted into Jewellery, orld a bulge and fall, And school- pound look like a fiver and boys who have never sten much more upon her back, began to virtue in the Colony suddenly work. But Oh! su slowly-it feel they are leaving the whole seemed.

world behind them us the

waving gap begins to yawn

and swallows up their cheer Keep Plugging

The retiring

tearful parents. Civil Servant in an old sports "Broko" and "Beautiful" jacket and the prime of life don't always go together. But feels no less that he is leaving by sheer guts she made them his whole life behind and has gel along. There Was the only the shell to take on. Ability to control a ravenous January 56 dry eyed girl hunger until a boyfriend should --Lin Chu-slood

beyond this app

appear to beg hor company at gap waving to her The journey

mother.

a restaurant and then to face to England the menu like a lady and eat was a gamble, There two had from It like a bird. worked and saved for It. And And there was plenty of the ability to keep the boyfriends mother had hoped her daughter lining up the lunches. Trouble up the hare-brained is one can't conveniently fit in

of Course for years

would

motion.

Είνα

But It was no good, much more than seven lunches She set off alone, with courage, in a week. Mannequins don't some ccnildence,

a lot of live on lunch and doubts and fears. In London even dinner dates a week she knew no one-and had little throws in, they can have a go idea how she should tackle at it.

alcae but with

that formidable city of high So poverty and the costly talent, endless possibility, and carefree gaiety of London's cut-throat competition.

First Class

+

better restaurants began to

together and to lighten the

by

tedious round of interviews and agents. And a mannequin who plugging, and is

GUCT That was a year ago, or just

ptionally

well dressed over. To be quite precise, a year the right people at all kinds of ago today tho

Chusan was times, stands just a chance of sailing out of Bombay harbour, getting noticed when the fashion

the striking with jet

reason begins, black hair was silling c the Lin was. forbidden First Class promenade How

by whorn we nicer.

tell. cannot

except that

where the

someone

or

Here's what London fashion writers are saying about the dazzling new face from Hongkong which they noticed for the first time among Matili's beauti- ful models at the great parade of the London fashion season.

“She has slanting almond eyes, jet black hair, and her name-Lin Chu-means Romance. She is

By A. Robertson

T

HIS story concerns a dog who, out of res pect for his memory,' should remain anonymous— because he was the willing party to as neat a piece of chicanery as I have heard of in many a long day.

It also concerns a shep- herd and

(one an American) whose two dog-lovers anonymity will also be pre- scrved - even though the affair happened a long time ago.

The shepherd lived in the

21 and is modelling clothes for fashion north of England, up near

designer Mattli at the spring shows this

week. She has a Manchurian father was

and a Scottish mother, came

England from Hongkong be-dog.

cause she says, "I've been

10 thin all my life, of

THE NEWS DIARY

OUT AND ABOUT with JOHN CARPENTER

Lin Chu-her name is Romance

I thought modelling was

the only thing I could do." Lin Chu

wants to model in Paris and Rome after gaining ex- perience in London but she likes English-

"They

men.

Q3

polite

Chinese

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parade,

the

wooth chic on to s

ver" w tyles.. collection how ears!! •

fashion

* The overture is over Outside and the curtain is going up.

writers are assembled. and eager to see the

O

Lin Chou, who came from Hong Kong to be

model, will realise her

men

very

tic," she

and

roman-

says.

DON'T HATE THE DOG NEXT DOOR

-JUST DRUG

Washington.

HIM

TT was the absence of the By Jennifer Johns I was the absence of the ind less crowd are

remarking to those cuttings landed on our notice on my neighbour's under-the-ear production which "Bombay ...a hugh desk hero In Hongkong this gate that led me to Ameri- arst time in ten years...

I managed to stroko for the city, but I like it,"

ca's latest four-footed won-

And London, whe

dor, when it arrived to..

week.

dirty

They wards the end of February, was one battle-tho batllo

thaz

of the end of

for der the tranquillfed dog. Peace of mind

"the" and a consulta-crimson clawed, the politely was shocked at my tenta. our local vet T discovered that

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the Scottish border, and the dog which belonged to him quite exceptionally to talented, even for a sheep-

The American wealthy tourist who heard

was

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the sheepdog's fame while spending part of his vacation in the neighbour hood of its native hills and conceived a notion to purchase it from its owner -only to learn that his in- terest in the canine was rivalled by a similar desire on the part of a visitor, from the South of England.

Prejudice

Now strangers to the United Kingdom are sometimes sur- prised by the local prejudices which they find existing, and which can be almost as keen as national patriotism. They lear

example, will frequently tend lo 'look down his nose at a com→ patriot from the

south. They may also hear a mative of the counly of Cornwall, in the south-west, Teler to other Englishmen ps "foreigners." A similar stato of affaits prevails in Scotland, where a citizen of Glasgow and a citizen of Edin burgh thrown into each other'd company may often find it difficult to remain on civil terms. The shepherd in this instance was decidedly prejudiced in regard to folk from the south. To him, no fellow-countryman born below a vague une drown across the Midlands of England could hope to bear comparison with one who had the 'good? fortune to belong north of that tine.

That a northern Englishman, for

The shepherd was one of those who believe that the Beute Angies who settled this fair, land more than a thousand years ago made their way upwards from the south, leaving the obtuse oncs behind them.

Value of money

But this shepherd-descendant of the neute Angles had a keen sense of the value of money, and was a shrewd bargainer, Therefore it was not surprising that when the visiting American and the Englishman from the offered to buy his dog from him, he set one against the other so that they alternately

their bido.

the

What was curprising was his acceptance

southern Englishman's final offer which was very substantial, but which almost doubled by the American in a last desperato altempt to secure possession of the coveted copine,

was

Some of the local people were especially puzzled

the by shepherd's decision, knowing full well that it could not have been taken because he preferred the other Englishman to the American,

The riddle was solved some time

me after the dog had been carried off to the south of Eng- tand by his, new master. One day, in

a quiet valley of the northern hills, an acquaintance raw the shepherd ploiding to- wards him with a familiar figure at his heels--none' other than the self-same shoepdog which had figured in the transaction.

Poor swimmer

"You bought him back?”

"Not likely," Wor the shepherd's reply. "He found. his way back. I know he would."

The shepherd's acquaintanco The effeciveness of this new understood then why the Ameri- that it can cure almost any down. "I soe," he observed unpleasant streak that ever slyly "The dog can't swim, worried a dog or scared a post ch

He can swim," the shepherd Hysterical barking .....

ints i

rejoined "But not the biling ... marling... cussed... Allanile.". alsobodience all can be cured Then, stooping to pat his dog, by a chat with the va and he added: ecurso of the new drug.

laboratory gift to do is such can's offer had been turned

In future, in fact, if you are

teli not exactly taken by storm; She recognition--and the begining My neighbour - justifi started with a shorter course of another, the pearly toothed ably enough as it proved-

Chocking this conversion with

"I wouldn't part with him for training at a more expensive and

all the dollars In America. Bub battle in Mayfair's

"In the last three months thou- disturbed in the small hours I knew he'd find his way back tion with most expensive Jungle of fame,

tive enquiry. hair dresser in London.

matids of America's 25 million (at or any hour for that matter) from the south; He always They also tell that eyesight "But of course he's not dead, dogs have found peace of mind by a noise like the Hound of doen. - There followed the grind in London is not completely we've had him tranquilised. by taking a tranquilising drug helt sell, you'll know the around the agents.... strange smog-bound. They, over there You've never seen such

The sheepdog merely 'wagged a just doveloped by the Warner- anewer, Bequia Intances

Somebody's dog isn't his tail as though in corrobora- Soho сал. recognise a "beautiful" | chango in a dogi".

Chilcott laboratories in New "i wing. Paxitali whore

OVORYOLIO..! was a tryer giri when they see one, And And I hadn't either. From Jersey. ** (and anyone who made the after all Hongkong girls ARE being a foul-tempered mixed The drug-Paxital--is a canina rode moved out) A bearded the most beautiful in the world up hunk of irritability her version of the "happy pliks" writer, slepe": "on; her "landlady's And for this one, this weale, bull-terrier had changed into a which have been tranquilisina couch (for nothing), Zio“ did it, is TV, and THE QUEEN. happy-go-lucky, tickle-me- humine for the last two years

off

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DOG