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From: "Ken Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>
> I would have hoped it would already be well known in this group that
> high cholesterol has no real connection with any illness

Who really knows what to believe since conflicting data abounds?  I do
accept that half of all people who have heart attacks don't have high
cholesterol.

My mother at age 53 died of a heart attack in 1974.   High cholesterol and
angina were diagnosed in 1970, and she was put on the low cholesterol diet
that at that time was believed to be good.  I have a bitter laugh when I
think of some of the Eat/Don't Eat foods on that list.  By 1972 she felt
worse than ever and a heart cath showed 70% and 90% blockage in two areas.

At 48, I'm my mother's daughter in some respects I'd rather not be.  I would
not care for the final chapter of the family history to be written a too
soon.

Theola