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It was a very popular self-help book that focused on the benefits of an oat bran diet for lowering cholesterol, which further fueled the oat bran craze in the 1980s.
And then this book came out. So things are starting to build here for Oprah. And this book came out called The Eight Week Cholesterol Cure by a guy named Robert E. Kowalski.
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It was a very popular self-help book that focused on the benefits of an oat bran diet for lowering cholesterol, which further fueled the oat bran craze in the 1980s.
And then this book came out. So things are starting to build here for Oprah. And this book came out called The Eight Week Cholesterol Cure by a guy named Robert E. Kowalski.
And it chronicled his the decline of his LDL, the bad cholesterol, just from eating an Oat Bran diet. And that book became extraordinarily popular.