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Article: Saturated fat is key to lower cholesterol
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 6, 1989
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If you want to lower your blood cholesterol level, you have to
make a lot of changes. More important, you have to make the right
changes, and you have to make them in sufficient quantity to be
effective.
And that is where a lot of folks fail, in spite of sincere
efforts to improve eating habits.
More sophisticated research has refined our understanding of the
factors that elevate blood cholesterol levels, thereby increasing the
risk of heart disease. We now know that just cutting out eggs and
liver won't do it.
In fact, foods high in saturated fat are about four times more
potent than foods high in cholesterol for raising LDL, or "bad"
cholesterol, notes Dr. John LaRosa, a George ...