This preventive aspect seems of particular value in view of the British Government's determined efforts to reduce coronary heart disease in the UK.
In 1992, a massive nutrition task force was set up funded jointly by the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, charged with the job of drawing up a plan to meet the dietary targets set out in the Government's 'Health of the Nation' white paper. This worthy aim, besides acknowledging at last the vital part played by diet in maintaining health, is part of an attempt to bring down the rate of death from heart disease and stroke in Britain by 40 per cent by the end of the century, as well as see reductions in obesity and improvements in blood pressure (an early sign of circulatory disease).
How much worthier to consider what would be a parallel and inexpensive pilot study of the preventive and recuperative effects of chelation therapy on heart disease and strokes? But are we as far away from this as we think?