At 13:33 2000-12-23 -0500, Francesco wrote:
>"Mice fed a high-fat diet for seven months, less than half their life span,
>loss dramatic amounts of minerals from their bones, a team at the University
>of California Los Angeles reported."
>
>A mouse is not a primate...much less a human.
>
But we still have a lot in common.

People in Melanesia (who eat little fat, and also only little grains and
no dairy) have very low cholesterol. They have *low* bone density, but their
bones are still strong, judged from the fact that they seldom break them,
according to research by Staffan Lindeberg.

- Hans