1.   All the evidence points to a fatty diet being the main cause of heart disease in the West.

2.   Animals that ate fatty diets were found to be more prone to mammary tumors.

3.   Elevated cholesterol is often associated with obesity, a fatty diet and inactivity.

4.   High blood pressure is caused by a fatty diet, obesity, excess alcohol and lack of exercise, all in abundance here.

5.   It typically develops with old age, but is exacerbated by smoking, a fatty diet, high cholesterol and lack of exercise.

6.   More sedentary lifestyles and increasingly fatty diets probably contributed as well.

7.   Other risk factors include smoking, a fatty diet and diabetes.

8.   Rather, the authors maintain, it is only a matter of time before the fatty French diet exacts its coronary toll.

9.   A fatty diet and late childbirth may play a role.

10.   But among elderly people, many other factors, such as years of a fatty diet or genetic predisposition, account for a substantial proportion of heart attacks.