notbob wrote:

> It's true. I was on a extreme 15% fat diet once when I was trying to bulk
> up and lose weight. After a couple weeks my skin became dry and flakey. I
> backed off.


A friend has heart disease and high cholesterol run strong on both sides
of her family. (Parents, aunts and uncles dying of heart attacks in
their late 40s and early 50s.) A doctor recommended an extremely low
fat diet. She followed it exactly. One can only imagine the doctor had
never had a patient actually follow the diet before as he'd never before
had a patient come back with flaky skin, her hair falling out and
showing all the symptoms of someone suffering from vitamin deficiencies.
She was getting so little fat, she wasn't absorbing the oil soluble
vitamins. I don't know the effect on her cholesterol.


--Lia