"Let's go to Hardee's or McDonald's or someplace and get some high-fat, high-cholesterol food with flavor."

Almost half, for example, said they tried "a lot" to avoid too many high-cholesterol foods, and more than half said they tried a lot to get calcium.

But there were also new-age sailors, the fighting men and women who said they avoid not only strong drink but also high-cholesterol foods.

"IF you do this with cigarettes, why not also with high-cholesterol foods?"

Second, readers are led to believe that they might as well continue eating high-fat, high-cholesterol foods because it is seemingly not within their power to prevent mortality through serum cholesterol reduction.

The diet significantly limits the amount of fruits and vegetables one eats while encouraging meat intake; the combination of these high-fat, high-cholesterol foods with grapefruit is claimed to burn fat.

Annissa's mouth watered, but she knew she shouldn't risk eating high-cholesterol foods.

That is because, as Dr. Ahrens showed in his work, when most people eat high-cholesterol foods like eggs, the body compensates somewhat by reducing its own production of cholesterol.

Its people drink, smoke and indulge in high-cholesterol food with abandon, yet have far less obesity and fewer heart problems than Americans.

The consumption of high-cholesterol foods is an American pastime.