[986] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: Beneficial Effect of Veganism #2382
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Piekos)
Wed Jul 17 13:33:10 1996
To: Chien Liu <chien@deas.harvard.edu>
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:59:30 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:29:19 EDT
From: Ed Piekos <espiekos@MIT.EDU>
>Does anybody know the error bar of such a test? If it's +-3 then 109 does
>not sound that different from 114.
Quite right. I've heard that the numbers can vary quite a bit, even
if you take the test within a few days, and I don't think that 3
points is particularly significant.
Unfortunately, I never had a test when I was eating the SAD (Standard
American Diet). I bet those numbers would have differed significantly,
but there's no way to tell.
Do we have any meat-eaters on the list who will agree to a cholesterol
test, then a totally veggie diet for, say, a year? OK, so I have an
ulterior motive here - getting someone to try vegetarianism for a year
is a win even if we get no meaningful data. I think it's only fair,
actually, I tried the SAD for 18 years, after all (maybe the first
couple don't count).
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