Ten years ago, if I had gone into the local McDonald's and ordered a
Big Mac, I wasn't thinking about cholesterol ... probably because I didn't
know what it was. If someone had told me back then my two all-beef patties
were oozing with cholesterol, I probably would've said, "So that's what
they put into the special sauce."
But nowadays, I think about cholesterol a lot, but I'm still not clear
what it is.
Now, I live in England, which shouldn't affect my beef consumption, but
here I think twice before ordering a burger.
It's not the nebulous cholesterol content I worry about but whether
I'll come down with a case of "Mad Cow Disease."
No joke, the cows over here are barking -- make that mooing -- mad, and
some here are afraid the disease can be passed to humans. The scientific
term is called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE for short, and it can
transform a cow's brain into mushy sponge cake. It has killed more than
13,000 British......

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