Todd Moody wrote:
>puzzle is the Bellevue experiment of 1928 in which Vilhjalmur
>Stefansson and Karsten Andersen ate only meat for a year.  A
>study of two people can hardly be the basis for generalizations,
>but it is nevertheless interesting that Stefansson's total
>cholesterol dropped slightly during the year while Andersen's
>climbed all the way to 800, but returned quickly to normal levels
>after the conclusion of the experiment.  We don't know HDL/LDL

On another newslist, I saw the actual cholesterol levels of these men
posted.  Both were over 300 at the conclusion of the experiment.  I would
hardly call that "normal."  Mine is 152.

Bob Avery ([log in to unmask])