In a message dated 5/26/01 2:25:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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 TC      297
 LDL     232
 HDL     43
 TG      89
  >>

Here's a quote from Sally Fallon at www.WestonAPrice.org:

<<Butter is also a good dietary source of cholesterol. What?? Cholesterol an
anti-oxidant?? Yes indeed, cholesterol is a potent anti-oxidant that is
flooded into the blood when we take in too many harmful
free-radicals--usually from damaged and rancid fats in margarine and highly
processed vegetable oils.3 A Medical Research Council survey showed that men
eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using
margarine.4>>

So a high cholesterol level is simply an indicator -- not a problem in
itself. Treating high  cholesterol levels would be like trying to reduce the
temperature by pushing the mercury back down the thermometer!

Charles
San Diego, CA