Hi Adrienne;

Those are impressive results!

Maybe the study I quoted is flawed in some way - at least I hope it is, at
any rate. I will keep your quote in mind although I seem to have read in
other studies at PubMED that there was an underlying assumption that
saturated fats led to higher LDL levels. Where do these assumptions come
from other than from studies/experiments over the years?

Anyhow, thanks for your response,

Marilyn

At 11:08 AM 10/13/02 EDT, Adrienne Smith wrote:

>    A whopping 90 percent of the fat content in their diets was saturated
>fat, compared with just 10 percent that was monounsaturated fat.
>    Dr Hays told his audience that:
>
>Over the course of one year, the subjects achieved
>a mean decline in total cholesterol of between 231 and 190 mg/dl
>LDL (the 'bad' cholesterol) fell from 133 to 105 mg/dl,
>HDL (the 'good' cholesterol) increased from 44 to 47 mg/dl.
>Triglycerides declined from 229 to 182 mg/dl.
>HbA1c, which at the start of the study averaged 3.34 percent above normal,
>declined to just 0.96 percent above normal
>Average weight loss was in the order of 40 pounds.