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	Red Yeast Rice for Cholesterol Management - HypoCol mentioned

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1-6-2008 4:17 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc771195-359c-4cb4-870e-252404a41872/E63BF1F5-CDE8-47F9-A738-593FBC467514/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_yeast_rice&oldid=171759565" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_yeast_rice&oldid=171759565" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_yeast_rice&oldid=171759565"><P><B>Red yeast rice</B> (<A title="Chinese language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language">Chinese</A>: <A title="wiktionary:紅" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%85">紅</A><A title="wiktionary:麴" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%BA%B4">麴</A><A title="wiktionary:米" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B1%B3">米</A>, <A title="wiktionary:红" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A2">红</A><A title="wiktionary:曲" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9B%B2">曲</A><A title="wiktionary:米" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B1%B3">米</A>; pinyin: hóng qú mǐ; lit. "red yeast rice"), <B>red fermented rice</B>, <B>red kojic rice</B>, <B>red koji rice</B>, or <B>ang-kak</B>, is a bright reddish purple fermented rice, which acquires its colour from being cultivated with the mold <I><A title="Monascus purpureus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monascus_purpureus">Monascus purpureus</A></I>. In Japan, it is known as <I>beni-koji</I> (べにこうじ, lit. "red <I><A title="Aspergillus oryzae" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus_oryzae">koji</A></I>") or <I>akakoji</I> (あかこぎ, also meaning "red <I>koji</I>") and in Taiwan it is sometimes also called <I>âng-chau</I> (<A title="wiktionary:紅" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%85">紅</A><A title="wiktionary:糟" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B3%9F">糟</A>) in <A title="Taiwanese (linguistics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_%28linguistics%29">Taiwanese</A>. In China it is widely available under the brand name XueZhiKang (<A title="wiktionary:血" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A1%80">血</A><A title="wiktionary:脂" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%84%82">脂</A><A title="wiktionary:康" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BA%B7">康</A>), and in <A title="Singapore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore">Singapore</A> it is available as Hypocol™. (see ref: Dennis Lee, M.D.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_yeast_rice&oldid=171759565"><SPAN>Red yeast rice</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_yeast_rice&oldid=171759565"><P>Red yeast rice is sold in jars at <A title="Asian supermarket" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_supermarket">Asian markets</A> as a <A title="Pasteurization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization">pasteurized</A> wet aggregate, whole dried grains, or as a ground powder. It was a commonly used red <A title="Food coloring" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_coloring">food colouring</A> in <A title="East Asian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian">East Asian</A> and <A title="Chinese cuisine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine">Chinese cuisine</A> prior to the discovery of chemical food colouring. It has also been used in <A title="Chinese herbology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_herbology">Chinese herbal medicine</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E63BF1F5-CDE8-47F9-A738-593FBC467514/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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