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Cholesterol levels in U.S. children improved during the past two decades as makers of cookies, crackers and French fries responded to public con-cern that trans fats used in their products might be harm-ful to health.

The prevalence of elevated total cholesterol dropped to 8.1 percent for those ages 6 to 19 from 2007 to 2010 com-pared with 11 percent from 1988 to 1994, according to a study Wednesday in the Jour-nal of the American Medical Association. While no cause analysis was conducted, lower fat intake and more exercise might have contributed to the improvement, said Brian Kit, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention and the study’s lead author.

The most pivotal contri-bution might have occurred as food companies reworked products to reduce or elimi-nate trans fats, leading to dietary improvements that didn’t require consumers to make conscious choices, said Sarah de Ferranti, author of an editorial accompanying the study. McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain, and Starbucks are among compa-nies that have reduced the use of artificial trans fat, which is associated with high choles-

terol and heart disease.“There is an increased

awareness about the harms in trans fats, so manufactur-ers have removed them,” said de Ferranti, who directs the preventive cardiology clinic at Boston Children’s Hospi-tal. “It’s a lot harder for us to make the decision to eat healthy or to exercise.”

While trans fatty acids oc-cur naturally in some meat and dairy products, most trans fats are found in treated cook-ing oils and processed foods. Trans fats re commonly used by foodmakers to improve shelf life and taste. Eating too much trans fat might increase the risk of heart disease, ac-cording to the Food and Drug Administration.

While the cholesterol out-comes are encouraging and might help curb heart disease and stroke risks, de Ferranti and Kit said, the results must be taken in context. Non-high-density lipoproteins, a predictor of cardiovascular risk, were elevated in 10 per-cent of young people in the period ending in 2010, com-pared with about 14 percent in 1994.

“Despite the overall im-provements in blood choles-terol content, still one in 10 children has an elevated blood cholesterol,” Kit said in a tele-phone interview. “Continued monitoring of blood choles-

terol in youth will be impor-tant,”

Childhood obesity, which is tied to high cholesterol, climbed 43 percent to reach 18 percent from 1988 to 2010, based on data from the Atlanta-based CDC. That trend must be addressed to tackle cholesterol in the long run, de Ferranti said.

“We’re not making very big inroads into obesity, so we may lose some of the ben-efits over time,” she said.

The cholesterol study was based on data collected from more than 16,000 people who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Exami-nation Survey over three time periods.

RESEARCHER CITES LOWER FAT INTAKE, EXERCISE

Child cholesterol levels dropBy Jeanna Smialek

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Randy Travis arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated

Randy Travis was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated near his home in Tioga, Texas.

The country singer, 53, crashed his car just before midnight, TMZ reported, and was booked on a “retaliation and obstruction charge” after refusing a Breathalyzer test. He was “buck naked,” according to the Web site’s sources, and beyond a cou-ple cuts and bruises, uninjured.

This isn’t his first alcohol-related mishap. Travis was arrested for public intoxication in February, after officers found him parked outside a church in a ’98 Pontiac with an open bottle of wine in his passenger seat.

The Dallas/Fort Worth-area resident told police at the time that he’d been fighting with his girlfriend and later apologized for his drunken behavior, according to People.

Monkees plan first tour since 1997The Monkees will perform their first live shows in 15 years when

the group launches a 12-date U.S. tour in November, surviving members Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork announced Wednesday. It also will be the group’s first shows without Davy Jones, who died of a heart attack Feb. 29 at age 66. The tour kicks off Nov. 8 in Escondido, Calif. It wraps Dec. 2 in New York. It will highlight Jones “in the show’s multimedia content.”

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