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I have the article. Could you give me that fax number again?
Todd
=?windows-1252?Q?Adrienne?= wrote:
>Can anyone help me figure out how to get the full article to this abstract
>on-line? I think the question raised at the end of the abstract is very
>interesting for those of us trying to approximate a paleo diet.
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>1: South Med J. 1988 Jan;81(1):61-3. Links
>Reducing the serum cholesterol level with a diet high in animal fat.Newbold
>HL.
>Multiple food allergies required a group of seven patients with elevated
>serum cholesterol levels to follow a diet in which most of the calories
>came from beef fat. Their diets contained no sucrose, milk, or grains. They
>were given nutritional supplements. This is the only group of people in
>recent times to follow such a diet. During the study, the patients'
>triglyceride levels decreased from an average of 113 mg/dl to an average of
>74 mg/dl; at the same time, their serum cholesterol levels fell from an
>average of 263 mg/dl to an average of 189 mg/dl. At the beginning of the
>study, six of the patients had an average high-density lipoprotein
>percentage of 21%. At the end of the study, the average had risen to 32%.
>These findings raise an interesting question: are elevated serum
>cholesterol levels caused in part not by eating animal fat (an
>extremely "old food"), but by some factor in grains, sucrose, or milk ("new
>foods") that interferes with cholesterol metabolism?
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