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Jewish Religious Beliefs forbids the mixing of meat and milk products in the same meal. Thus butter has been eliminated as a cooking agent, and sunflower oil and vegetable margarines are used instead. (Olive oil is too expensive). Sunflower oil and vegetable margarines are low in Omega 3 and high in Omega 6. Result of all this is that they have the lowest cholestrol level in the Western world, but the downside is that they have the highest heart and obesity problems.

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