Loren Cordain Wrote:
> Stefansson's lower protein
> intake (20%energy) relative to aboriginal intakes may have contributed
> to the hypercholesterolemia produced by his "civilized all meat diet".

Actually it was probally the only vegetable allowed on this diet that
contributed the most to the high cholesterol seen by Stefansson and to a
much greater extent by Anderson.  While in Belvue both drank coffee
prepared by Anderson in the traditional Scandinavian method - boiling!

Boiled coffee (as opposed to percolated or filtered) raises cholesterol
higher and faster than any other method known (including an extremly high
fat diet).  As Stefansson spent far less time drinking this potent brew
and more time time outside the hospital ( he left the hospital after
the first month and would have had access only to percolated coffee) his
hypercholesterolemia would have been far less than Anderson's (as was the
case).

See:
"Discovery: The Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson"
and:
CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 65 Number 2 February 1997
Separate effects of the coffee diterpenes cafestol and kahweol on serum
lipids and liver aminotransferases

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin:A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"