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- LETTERS, Page 7GOOD" CHOLESTEROL
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- I enjoyed reading your story on the "good" type of cholesterol
- (MEDICINE, Dec. 12). I used to be able to take these articles with
- a grain of salt, but since becoming an avid reader of the Medicine
- section, I've cut down on salt. I've also given up sitting around
- chewing the fat, and I no longer risk skin cancer by walking in the
- sun with my head held high.
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- Dan Goldbeck
- Long Beach, N.Y.
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- Those of us who are involved in alternative medicine are amused
- that practices we have known about for years have achieved
- legitimacy. Oat bran is not a new product, and it is only one of
- many natural remedies that we have used for a long time.
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- Jan Pettit
- Saluda, N.C.
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- I'm 52 and have a cholesterol count that is borderline
- acceptable. By eating nothing but oat-bran breakfasts over the next
- six months, I am hopeful that I can reduce it to below 200.
- Thereafter, of course, I will continue to eat oat bran for the rest
- of my life.
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- Harry G. Vredenbregt
- Watertown, Wis.
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- Your presentation of the relationship between lipid (fat)
- metabolism and heart disease and of ways to obtain optimum
- cholesterol levels was great. Certain foods should not be packed
- in children's lunch boxes because of their high content of
- saturated fat.
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- Albert E. Pels III
- East Greenwich, R.I.