Bruce Merritt wrote:

>A high fat diet raises HDL lowers VLDL.
>High carb the opposite.
>The so-called bad LDL is made from excess glucose by liver.
>That evolution came up with a energy storage storage system
>that promotes CHD is ludicrous.
>
>

Speaking of high fat diets and lipids, this article is interesting:
http://www.mayo.edu/proceedings/2003/nov/7811a1.pdf

The high fat diet's most pronounced effect on serum lipids was to
increase LDL particle size.  This is a good thing, but there was also an
increase in homocysteine, which is not a good thing.

Todd Moody
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