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Hi Clare,You're right about dairy products. Dairy, including butter, is very healthy. I meant that splitting whole milk dairy into low fat products is financially beneficial to the dairy industry. When the dairy industry removes the fat from whole milk — it gets added to other products.Low-fat dairy is not healthy. Here's what authors Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary Enig say about reduced-fat dairy in their book Eat Fat, Lose Fat:Oxidized Cholesterol (p. 52)Contrary to what you've heard, cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, but rather a potent antioxidant weapon against free radicals in the blood. Naturally produced in the body and naturally present in the foods we eat, it's a repair substance that actually helps heal arterial damage.However, heat and oxygen can damage cholesterol just as they do fats. Damaged or "oxidized" cholesterol can injure arterial walls and lead to a pathological plaque buildup in the arteries. Both of these damages can result in heart disease.That's why we recommend that you avoid foods that contain damaged cholesterol, such as powdered eggs and powdered milk (which manufacturers add to reduced-fat milk, yogurt, and other dairy products to give them body—without stating this fact on the label). Ironically, when you choose reduced-fat milks in order to avoid heart disease, you consume the very form of cholesterol that can cause heart disease.Mary JocholesterolPosted by: "Clares Primus" mcharris   theclaremcharrisSun Apr 13, 2008 2:47 pm (PDT)BlankMary JoI was reading your excellent reply to Jeff regarding (mainly) the way industry has screwed up the truth about fats etc... to promote the THEORY of fats and cholesterol and heart disease.....ONE THING caught my attention and I ask for clarrification please.Besides the vegetable oil industry, several other industries benefit from the cholesterol myth:• Butter, Cream and Other Derivative Dairy ProductsMilk is separated into a variety of products that represent an additional revenue stream.Am I understanding you to say that DAIRY PRODUCTS (per se) are bad for us? because that is not how I see it at all... in that I believe BUTTER is most healthful as opposed to the alternative margairines and spreads that are marketed as being cholesterol reducing.(how has the butter industry benefited?)Also I would (if I had to) drink fresh unadulterated milk from a cow rather than the hyped up garbage, processed into UHT type blocks or cans, and sold as so called 'healthy alternatives'........ such as soy milks etc................Anyway I hope I am reading you incorrectly..... cheer's from Clare in Tassie