Re: Food - A Proper Fry-Up

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Cheryl Perkins Pondered, Weak and
Weary, Over Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, and then wrote:
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Pogonip <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I often wonder about the unhealthy claims. I have known a lot of people
who ate like that and lived a long time, and others who ate "healthy,"
and did a lot of "healthy" things, and died in their 40s and 50s. When
I found out the oat bran research had been funded by Quaker Oats, it did
not reassure me about the reliability of these studies.

It's partly genetics - I've heard that they now believe that for some
people, the amount of fat doesn't cause problems for some people. Others
have the kind of metabolism that responds to high fat levels by clogging
the arteries. So if you end up with high cholesterol levels in your blood,
you might be able to reduce it by a low-fat diet, but you might find diet
alone comparatively ineffective and only be able to reduce it with drugs.

Sounds like me. High cholesterol runs in my family, esp. on my
father's side (lot's of heart attacks, bypasses and arteriosclerosis).
I've been on cholesterol lowering medicine for years, and it works.

<sound of knuckles rapping on wood>


OTOH, I seem to recall that years ago someone did a study comparing the
health of Irish men living on farms and eating a high fat diet, and their
brothers who had emigrated to US cities and ate a lower-fat diet. The
Irishmen were healthier, and that was put down to exercise, even though
now they're saying exercise doesn't help all that much; it might alter the
proportions of the different kinds of cholesterol in a beneficial way, but
if you've inherited an uhealthy type of metabolism, exercise isn't going
to help all that much.

<sigh> I'm confused.

Don't worry, Cheryl, they'll probably have it all figured out right
after our funerals. :)

John P

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