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Article: Occasional splurge need not permanently raise cholesterol
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 22, 1987
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Splurging on a high-fat, high cholesterol
meal as often as every other day need not raise cholesterol levels if
people compensate by reducing fat and cholesterol in other meals,
according to a new study.
Fourteen people who followed a diet containing no more than 25
percent fat, most of it unsaturated, and moderate amounts of
cholesterol found they could eat a ham-and-cheese sandwich and a
Haagen-Dazs milk shake every other day without substantially altering
their heart-disease risk - if the total amount of cholesterol and fat
they consumed in their diets did not jump too high.
Dr. Margo Denke, an endocrinologist at the University of ...