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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.
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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