Todd is refering to the fact that Stefanssonson's and Anderson's
cholesterol rose dramaticly during during this experement.  This cannot
be explained by their fat consumption as this degree of increase has
never been seen clinically from fat consumption.  It is explained in
Stef's autobiography when he talks of their spending long hours in the
hospital drinking endless cups of boiled coffee.  This is the only way
known to science to produce this degree of cholesterol increases.
(from a previous post)

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"

> Todd Moody wrote:
>
> > Before accepting the conclusion that Stefansson and Andersen
> > thrived, you should have a look at the following references:
> >
> >         McClellan WS, Rupp VR, Toscani V.  Prolonged meat diets
> >         with a study of the metabolism of nitrogen, calcium and
> >         phosphorous. J Biol
> >
> >         Tolstoi E.The effect of an exclusive meat diet on the
> >         chemical constituents of the blood. J Biol Chem
> >         1929;83:753-58.
> >
> > Todd Moody
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