Any decent hotel will offer you the breakfast that travelers love, on impressively sized plates, fried eggs, crispy bacon and fried sausages. All this beauty is offered accompanied by baked tomatoes, stewed beans, butter and toasted toast. In general, its a gourmets dream, plus the right amount of calories for. The whole day, but few people know that the person who eats this culinary miracle each time takes a small step towards big problems for his health. In 1908, twentyyearold Nikolai Anichkov was a student in the final year of the Imperial Military medical academy, it was. The experimental rabbits were offered a menu consisting of eggs and milk, the result was unexpected, after two weeks of such a diet, grayishwhite plaques, the same doctors saw during autopsies in the vessels of people who died of heart disease. It was tempting to assume that it was egg yolks that caused the development of the disease, but. Science does not like simple solutions, Nikolai Anichkov understood this we