Interesting. I have never heard this. I remember some press a year or so ago about a low-fat vegan diet lowering cholesterol as well as or better than the statin drugs in many cases. Dr. Dean Ornish did a study on this several years ago. Dr. T. Colin Campbell's book, The China Study, addresses this too - he found that in the rural Chinese counties where his 20-year study took place, people ate very little animal products and on average had 1/2 the cholesterol rates of people in this country... as well as significantly less cancer, autoimmune disease, heart disease, etc. Its a good plug for a vegan diet, but after joining this group (BT pick your # ), I'm thinking his control group probably also ate very little gluten. I'd love to know! That could certainly skew the results. Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a debate. I've come to believe that there are "studies" for just about every side of every story, and we all just have to do what we think is best.