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From: leimkuhl@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: OOPS.  Finishing last message
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 15:52:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!leimkuhl    Feb 10 14:52:00 1986




Well, my impression is that the cholestoral in eggs is the real problem--
we're not talking saturated fats here, we're talking levels of serum
cholestoral in the bloodstream.  

During the Vietnam war, many medical experiments were conducted on American
casualties (war presents a rare opportunity to conduct autopsies on the
bodies of large numbers of young men).  One of these studied levels of serum
cholestoral and blockage of the arteries surrounding the heart--they found
extreme constriction.  Perhaps, though, if you're not eating meat, there
is just not as much fat to be deposited, but the person who quoted me 
four eggs per week was a vegetarian herself, as well as an RN.

-Ben Leimkuhler