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Carol Lydick wrote:

>I wanted to know
>if there was a replacement for oat bran in lowering cholesterol
>naturally.  Many wrote back to me that there indeed was a substitute
>and it was rice bran.

The problem with any bran is, while it may lower cholesterol, it will also
contain phytic acid. Phytic acid strongly binds to minerals like calcium,
iron, zinc and magnesium to form insoluble salts, phytates, which
precipitate from the body. I have 60 references on this. This article by
Staffan Lindeberg uses 29 of them as footnotes:

  http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind9706&L=paleodiet&O=T&P=850

Don.