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Coconut Oil 'Pure Poison' or 'Superfood'? These 2x5x PRO vs. CON Human Studies Will Help You to Form an Opinion

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Coconut oil yay or nay? Not the B vs. W question Michels' lecture made it. I am pretty sure you will have read about  or even seen the lecture by Karin Michels , the director of the Institute for Prevention and Tumour Epidemiology  at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, which probably got so much attention, because Prof. Michels also works as an epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health . In her lecture, she claims that there was no single clinical human study that would refute her claim that coconut oil (CO) was, due to its high concentration of saturated fatty acids (SFA), "pure poison" that would unquestionably "clog your arteries and lead to certain cardiovascular death" (translated based on the video ). The effects of coconut oil in a  low-carbohydrate diet are completely unknown: Protein Oxidation an Issue W/ High PRO Diets? CHO ↓ = Perfor-mance ↓ - What about Avg. Joes? More Protein ≠ More Satiety, St...
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Whole vs. Skim Milk -- Increased HDL and no Effect on LDL, Glucose and Insulin in 3-Wk Crossover Study... But WAIT!

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"Whole" or "skim" - eventually it may make much less of a difference than either low-fat or high-fat proponents may still believe.... that is if you're young and healthy and not doing the "1 gallon o' milk"-routine, bro ;-) Now that more and more people begin to get that eggs are not toxic cholesterol bombs, it's about time that scientists re-address the myth that putting the "whole" in the "milk" would have serious health consequences... oh, wait: Eventually, Sara Engel and colleagues from the  University of Copenhagen  found statistically sign. health consequences - allegedly heart-healty ones! More specifically, the authors observed that only 3-weeks on whole vs. skim milk will significantly elevate the HDL levels of 18 healthy adults who were randomly assigned to a sequence of treatments consisting of 0.5 L/d of whole milk and skimmed milk as part of their habitual diet. You can learn more about dairy at the Su...
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Fish vs. Krill Oil, SFA ↔ PUFA - False Advice, Low-FODMAP Diet for Athletes GI Tracts - Nutrition Research Update 9/17

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In contrast to the often-asked krill vs. fish oil question, the issue of PUFA vs. SFA seems to be resolved. At least if we focus on replacing SFA with N-6-PUFA well-controlled RCTs don't show a benefit. If studies are interesting, but there's not enough to dissect for a full SuppVersity  article, they make it to the short news . Today's installment is a nutrition research update and it deals with (1) the often-asked question whether there's a health- or performance-relevant difference between fish and krill oil , (2) the often-heard advice to replace saturated fats in your diet with omega-6 fats to improve your heart health, an advice of which a new meta-analysis shows quite cleverly that it's an artefact due to the inclusion of insufficiently controlled studies, and (3) using the low-FODMAP diet in athletes to reduce gastrointestinal problems that range from burping to diarrhea. Learn more about various topics at the SuppVersity Apples a day + Lot's...
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Which Fats Should Mothers-to-Be Consume if They Don't Want Their Kids to be Obese as Early as With 2-7 Years?

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Fat is an important nutrient for the unborn child. Accordingly, the question is not if pregnant women should consume fat, it's rather how much and at which ratios saturated, monounsaturated (MUFA) and polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids should be consumed. A new study does now go even one step further and tries t assess the optimal amount of individual fatty acids like arachidonic acid (ARA), Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). It should be obvious: Out of ethical reasons, the question from the headline can only be answered based on rodent or epidemiological studies. Now, I am not exactly a fan of epidemiology, but  in this important case, I wouldn't like to rely on rodent data, which tends to deviate significantly from human data in long-term trials spanning several developing periods. As you will probably know, a high-intake ratio of n -6/n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) has been suggested to contribute to excess fetal adipose tis...
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