[411] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: URGENT: Don't Eat Eggs [rec.food.veg #59995]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Piekos)
Fri Mar 17 11:24:50 1995
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:12:38 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:20:15 EST
From: Ed Piekos <espiekos@MIT.EDU>
Lewis <9235367@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>cholesterol is an *essential* part of the human diet. Like it or not, you
>need a small amount in your daily intake, in order to make bile salts and
>steroid hormones.
and he is both right and wrong. He is right in stating that your body needs
cholesterol to function, but he is wrong (as far as I'm aware) in stating that
you need to consume it.
Statement: There is *no* cholesterol in any plant product that I have ever
heard of.
Question: If this is the case, where do the animals get it so they can pass
it on to us?
Answer: Their bodies manufacture it.
Point: So do we.
I've never heard of someone with a cholesterol deficiency and I've never seen
cholesterol supplements anywhere. These would be necessary for vegans if our
bodies didn't make what we needed because, again, cholesterol is only found
in animal products.
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