The micro‐meal feeding pattern employed by a number of investigators 8, 10, 11, 18 leads to a relatively constant level of TRL apoB48 across the day and rates of overall apoB48 secretion are reported to be about 73 mg day−1 in normal 37 to 644 mg day−1 in diabetics 10 with apoB48 FCRs of 4.3 and 3.7 pools day−1, respectively. Here, APOB is linked to diabetes mellitus.