Experimental Atherosclerosis and High Protein Diets.

Abstract

SummaryA diet high in soy bean flour diminishes the incidence and degree of experimental sclerosis in rabbits fed cholesterol, while a diet rich in defatted casein augments the degree of sclerosis. Rabbits, fed the high protein, defatted casein diet alone may develop atheromatous lesions indistinguishable from those produced by cholesterol.