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Biotech / Medical : Mining Cholesterol

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To: Mark_H who wrote (161)	9/7/2006 12:59:30 AM
From: E. Charters	of 356

"Coconut oil feeding (of rats) produced significantly lower levels (p=<0.05) of pre-beta lipoproteins (VLDL) and significantly higher (p=<0.01) alpha-lipoproteins (HDL) relative to sunflower oil feeding."[4] This is contradictory with their assertion of harm. If in fact coconut oil leads to lower LDL and higher HDL, then it is beneficial in comparison to sunflower oil. I think one would need to ask the researchers to re-examine their data. The later assertions are not in line with the above obersvation. It is important to understand that rats metabolize fats completely different than humans and findings about cholesterol with respect to rats may be totally invalid in humans.

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