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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: cholesterol and lipids
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:58:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 17:58:41 1985
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In article <261@bbncc5.UUCP> sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>
>Let's remember the difference between EXOGENOUS cholesterol, that found in
>the diet, and ENDOGENOUS lipid fractions, including cholesterol, HDL's and
>LDL's, circulating in the blood stream.
>  It is meaningless to refer to
>HDL's or LDL's or their ratios in foods as being "beneficial" or "harmful"
>to human health, because during digestion they all turn into various
>amounts of cholesterol, fatty acids, amino acids and glycerol, quite
>uncharacterizable as high-density or low-density anything.  It is the ratio
>of lipid fractions found in the blood of real live people which appears to
>matter.
>-- 
	Quite correct, I had forgotten this aspect of the situation.
However, I do seem to remember that diet does have some impact on the
HDL/LDL ratio in the blood, and that *amount* of cholesterol in the
diet was *not* the most significant factor. However, my memory on this
is rather vague.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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