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Response of Rural Guatemalan Indian Children with Hypocholesterolemia to Increased Crystalline Cholesterol Intake^1,2,

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala, Central America

In the rural village of Magdalena, Guatemala, 60 school-age Mayan Indian children, consuming diets low in fat and cholesterol, were divided into two groups: Group 1 received a 600-mg crystalline cholesterol and 15-ml cottonseed oil supplement daily in a glass of Incaparina for 30 days. The cholesterol intake was then increased to 1200 mg and given for another 30 days. Group 2, the control group, received daily a glass of Incaparina with only 15 ml of cottonseed oil for the same two periods. The results showed that exogenous cholesterol did not increase the low serum lipid and cholesterol levels of these children.

² INCAP Publication I-255.

³ Fellow from Columbia University in training at INCAP during the summer of 1961.

Manuscript received 22 August 1962.