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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Patrick Stewart & "Space Age"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.165702.17047@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Nov17.123411.16194@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Nov17.154647.29412@osf.org> <69745@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:57:02 GMT
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- In article <69745@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
- >My doctor started complimenting me on the fact that I "must eat
- >a very healthy diet...." It was all I could do to keep from
- >laughing in his face and telling him I went through (on average)
- >1.5lb of butter and 0.5lb of cheese per WEEK -- and some not
- >insignificant amount of whole milk to drink with it all. And
- >then of course, there's all that peanut butter.....
- >Admittedly, I don't consume "Dead Animal Body;" that may well
- >have something to do with it.
-
- I doubt it. You chose your parents well. Boasting about that
- is like someone boasting about hir good looks. It's unseemly. :-)
-
- >All the cholesterol I consume comes from dairy products.
-
- George, dietary cholesterol is almost entirely uncorrelated with
- serum cholesterol. It's total fat (and secondarily, % of saturated fat)
- which makes the difference. (Lacto-ovo-) vegetarians whose intake of
- saturated fat is similar to meat eaters have a similar incidence of
- atherosclerosis.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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