Sun, Sep-15-02, 17:28
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Senior Member
Posts: 411
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 174/163/163
BF:21.1%/18.5%/18.5%
Progress: 100%
Location: Conway, AR
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Trans fats may well be dangerous. I'm not saying they are good. But we all know how statistics can be stated in a way that gives a highly misleading picture. I am reading Ravnskov's book The Cholesterol Myths, in which he demonstrates that a study showing that people with low cholesterol had a 400 times better chance of not having a heart attack than those with high cholesterol turns out to be a statistical trick. The real difference in the death rates was .03 vs. 1.3, which is a 400 percent difference, but in absolute terms was really very small.
Malloy talks about Willett in his article that began this thread.
Still abstaining from trans fat,
Sheldon
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