In a message dated 5/26/01 3:30:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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<< >  He has now had a full test and the results are really bad, in fact
 >  just the same as before going on the diet.

 You might ask if both tests were done after fasting for 12 hours.  I've had
 results from 160 to 275 due to inconsistencies in timing.
 Holly
  >>
 According to Sally Fallon's research into the causes of heart disease,
cholesterol is a red herring. Apparently the role of cholesterol is to repair
damage in the artery walls that is being caused by something else. Blaming
cholesterol for the damage is like blaming the fire brigade for the fire. If
you have cholesterol levels over 200, this simply means that you have a lot
of damage. The relationship between cholesterol levels and deaths due to
heart disease is not as simple as the establishment would have you believe.
The death rates increase quite dramatically if cholesterol levels drop too
low, and according to the graphs Sally has, low cholesterol shows a higher
risk than high levels.

The supposed connection between high cholesterol levels and heart disease
deaths is due to fraudulent misrepresentation of the data. The scale on the
x-axis of the graph was shortened at high levels to make it look as though
there was a dramatic relationship between high cholesterol levels and death
rates, but in fact if the graph is replotted with the correct x-axis scale,
no such relationship appears. Where there is a true correlation is at the
lower end of the scale -- in other words the risk of coronary mortality
increases with low cholesterol levels.

I'm not any kind of expert on this, but this can all be found at the
WestonAPrice.org website.

Charles
San Diego, CA