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Article: CHOLESTEROL A BUM RAP FOR SHRIMP, STUDY SAYS
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- The Washington Post
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- November 5, 1996
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Shrimp lovers, rejoice.
The popular crustacean, long on the list of foods to avoid
because of its high cholesterol count, has received a ringing
endorsement from Rockefeller University researchers in New York.
The team of scientists found that eating steamed shrimp did
not raise blood cholesterol levels, as had long been feared. "We
were surprised, but pleased, to find that a low-fat diet with shrimp
did not impair lipoprotein levels," said Jan L. Breslow, a coauthor
of the study and head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and
Metabolism at Rockefeller. The study appears in this month's
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Shrimp is a low-fat but high-cholesterol food that ...