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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
- Subject: Re: request for info on egg consumption
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.052134.16799@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:21:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov17.052134.16799
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- In article <1992Nov16.234614.341@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
- >Adelle Davis only publicised research done by othrs, she never
- >attempted to do research herself. It's been amusing to read newspaper
- >accounts of discoveries at MIT of the value of inositol and oat
- >bran in countering high cholesterol;
-
- WHAT value of inositol in countering high cholesterol? There is none.
- Inositol nicotinate is not inositol. It's like saying that glycerine is
- an explosive because nitroglycerine is.
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- >this research was done at least
- >twenty years ago with similar results and was reported in Davis'
- >books at that time.
-
- Perhaps you could point to the place in her books where she talks
- about oat bran. I don't have them handy.
-
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