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From: lazeldes@wlcrjs.UUCP (Leah A Zeldes)
Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.med
Subject: Re: olive oil (a few facts)
Message-ID: <662@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 07:53:12 EST
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Summary: 

In article <714@druxp.UUCP> eagan@druxp.UUCP (EaganMS) writes:
>I have heard that it is the polyunsaturated oils that reduce cholesterol.
>As far as I know olive oil is not one of these oils.

Recent studies have indicated that monounsaturates do the same thing as
polyunsaturates.  Olive oil is a monounsaturated oil.

That's all I know about this -- I read it in a newspaper filler article.
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					Leah A Zeldes
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