Thanks Heeligan 2 - a useful link.

ShandyAndy, sooner or later, you have to stop researching the theory and put it to a practical test.

Just pluck up the courage to test everything you are worried about - cholesterol, blood pressure, weight, whatever else you are concerned about, and go for it! Try the diet for a week. Test the things you can easily check yourself. If things look promising, you could extend the trial. Get some professional "after" tests done. If it works, continue with it. If it doesn't, then give it up. But either way, come back here and tell us what happened. If you spend all your time getting bogged down in theory and not trying anything in practice, how much are you really going to learn?

Incidentally, "Eat Fat and Grow Slim", published by Dr Richard Mackarness in 1958 and 1975, is a book I recommend you to read. It provides a considerable amount of evidence and proof, and should allay even some of your fears. And he's British, by the way. Ran the first obesity clinic ever in the UK (at Basingstoke).

Andy