A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 21,1990 Does (Continued from Page At) how you can evaluate the validity and reliability of this information. As the relationships between overconsumption of calories, fat, saturated fat and cholesterol and human health become better understood, dietary guidelines are developed to help consumers make appropriate changes in diet ary habits. Current data indicate that American adults get too many calories from fat, that men’s diets include too much cholesterol on average, and that women’s diets are lacking in calcium and iron (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture, 1986). Cal cium is insufficient in half our children’s diets, and four-fifths of children have diets low in iron. These data led to general dietary guidelines being established by several National Health Agencies including the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and the National Institute of Health (National Academy of Sciences, 1988). Animal products (meat, milk, eggs and products derived from them) provide a major portion of essential nutrients (such as pro tein, essential fatty acids, B vitamins and some minerals) required for a balanced diet and goal health. However, these food products also contribute approxi mately 57% of the total fat con sumed in our diet in 1984. This is Biotechnology markedly reduced from the 70% of total they represented in 1957-59. They also contribute about three-fourths of the satur ated fatty acids we consume. Red meat (beef, veal, pork and lamb) contributes slightly more than one-fourth of the fat from animal products and about 16% of the tot al fat found in our diet. Red meats also contribute about one-fourth of our dietary intake of cholester ol, while nearly 40% comes from eggs and about 14% from milk and milk products. This informa tion led to strong consumer demand for leaner meat and meat products. Other incentives for meat animal producers to raise animals which contain less fat include the following: 1) greater efficiency (less feed required) when nutrients are deposited as muscle instead of fat, 2) recent increases in subsidies to pork pro ducers in the European Economic community (none exist in the U.S.), 3) limitations in reducing fat content of meat animals through genetic selection, 4) diffi culty in managing intact male cattle (which are leaner than females and castrate males) and 5) undesirable odor and flavor found in pork from intact male pigs raised to our conventional market weights. 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