Plant Compounds in Diet Help Lower Cholesterol

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Plant Compounds in Diet Help Lower Cholesterol
(New York, Reuters Health, 6/4/02)

Dr. Richard E. Ostlund of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues report that phytosterols, natural plant substances found in vegetable oils, may reduce cholesterol absorption. They fed 25 people high-cholesterol pudding, some containing regular corn oil and the rest containing corn oil from which the phytosterols had been removed. Subjects ingesting the phytosterol-free corn oil absorbed 38% more cholesterol than those receiving the intact oil.

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