On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Don Wiss wrote: > The radio station (of the NY Times) reported on the rat study we were > discussing a few days back. He started off stating as known fact that fat > consumption clogged the arteries. Then he got into the rat study and said > they were fed vegetable and animal fats. Why researchers combine variables > is beyond me. Why not three groups: no fat, vegetable, and animal. But they > didn't. Somebody on lowcarb got in touch with the author and asked about this. Apparently previous studies had been done using just beef tallow or just soybean oil, and results were comparable, with the effects of beef tallow being just a bit worse. This is why in the recent study, which was to confirm the earlier results, they didn't separate those variables. They had already been shown not to make a difference. Todd Moody [log in to unmask]