Todd Moody wrote: >puzzle is the Bellevue experiment of 1928 in which Vilhjalmur >Stefansson and Karsten Andersen ate only meat for a year. A >study of two people can hardly be the basis for generalizations, >but it is nevertheless interesting that Stefansson's total >cholesterol dropped slightly during the year while Andersen's >climbed all the way to 800, but returned quickly to normal levels >after the conclusion of the experiment. We don't know HDL/LDL On another newslist, I saw the actual cholesterol levels of these men posted. Both were over 300 at the conclusion of the experiment. I would hardly call that "normal." Mine is 152. Bob Avery ([log in to unmask])