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From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: cholesterol in food and blood
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 12:29:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 12:29:47 1984
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	I, too, was struck by yet another example of the media mangling
	the news.  There are people with low serum cholesterol levels
	and people with high levels.  People with low levels can eat
	egg yolks every day with little noticeable change in serum chol.
	level.  People with high levels should avoid the intake of
	cholesterol at all costs.  This problem seems to be partially
	inherited.  I know of a young man who died of a heart attack at
	33, leaving two young children behind.  He had a high serum cholesterol
	level.  One of the children was found to have the same problem.
	The child will be on a low cholesterol diet for the rest of his life,
	which is now likely to be much longer than his dad's.

							Patricia Collins
							hplabs