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MUFAs = Inflammation ⇈, SFAs = Cholesterol ⇊? Human Study Has "Good MUFA, Bad Saturated Fat"-Myth Tumble

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Are the "good MUFAs" in olive oil not so "good" after all? Should you rather be eating SFAs all day? Whut? I guess that's what you may have thought, when you read the headline of today's SuppVersity article. "How on earth is that possible?" Actually, that's not far off of what I have thought, when I hit on the latest study from the  Top Institute Food and Nutrition  at the Wageningen University  in the Netherlands (Esser. 2015). I mean, I was not surprised to hear that the gene-expression changes the scientists concluded revealed (we should rather say confirmed) that a high fat (HF) challenge in the course of which 18 lean and 18 obese male subjects between 50–70 years, who were non-smoking, normoglycemic (WHO criteria) and not diagnosed with any long-term medical condition, consumed milkshake with 95g of fat that were either high in saturated fat (SFA) or monounsaturated fat (MUFA). Learn more about the effects of your diet on your he...
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Scientists Probe the Interaction Between Saturated and Unsaturated High Fat Diets and Their Corresponding Carbohydrate Sources (Cornstarch vs. Fructose)

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This add is a perfect example of how saturated fat, in this case lard has always been blamed for the "lard" on ones hips. Any hypothesis that tries to blame for our "fat misery" on a single nutrient is short-sighted. After years of fat-bashing, carbophobia and fructose hating in the course of which the situation progressively, we are now seeing the first studies which investigate what the Polish researchers, Adam JurgoÅ„ski, Jerzy JuÅ›kiewicz and Zenon ZduÅ„czyk from the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research at the Polish Academy of  Sciences call the "biological interactions among these dietary factors" in their latest paper in the peer-reviewed open-source journal Nutrients (JurgoÅ„ski. 2014). With the publication of the data of a their latest rodent study, the scientists have already taken the first step to a new, an "interactionist" perspective on the obesogenic effects of saturated vs.unsaturated and simple vs.complex ca...
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Saturated Fat Makes You Fat! You Read the Press Release - Here is the Whole Story: A Story of Muffins, SFA, MUFA, PUFA, Body, Liver & Visceral Fat and N6s & Lean Mass

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I have to admit: Whether a conclusion as general at this is warranted based on the data from a recent study is questionable. Somehow I knew that people would freak out, about a press release I reposted on the SuppVersity Facebook page earlier today ( read it! ). Next to saying that you can eat fructose and not get obese saying that you can eat PUFAs without getting fat is probably as heretic as saying that saturated fat makes you fat... what? Oh yes! You're right, it can be even worse. I mean, imagine you'd say that unsaturated fatty acids are less obesogenic than saturated fats. Ah, come on! That's so mainstream it must be propaganda from the "pharmaceutical enteprise/ cholesterol lowering drug entreprise" [ sic! ], right? Well, I am just looking at the acknowledgements of the study the press release refers. Let's see: "None of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose" and "This study was funded by the Swedish Research C...
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Standard American Diet Has 'Optimal' Fatty Acid Ratio to Induce Diabesity. Plus: Study Shows Doubling Saturated Fats Would Yield More Benefits Than Halving Them

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Study confirms: The SAD diet yields 'optimal' results (img. forbes.com) Since this post is already lengthy enough, I will spare you how saturated fatty acids have long falsely been accused as the sole driving force of the western obesity epidemic and how the tides appear to be slowly yet steadily appear to be turning, as scientists delve deeper and deeper into the interactions of the total fat content in the diet, its fatty acid composition and the interaction of both with the two other macronutrients and their specific forms and get right to the study at hand. A study that appears in the current issue of the Journal of Lipid Science and deals with the first of the aforementioned interactions. The one that focuses on the total fat content and the individual fatty acid make-up of the diet (Enos. 2012). Fat shoot out: Saturated vs. mono vs. PUFA As Enos et al. point out, the main purpose of their study was to examine the effects of three high fat diets differing only wi...
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Vitamin D & PUFA - Is There an Overlooked Antagonism Between Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Vitamin D3?

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Image 1: Do not write off all the "good" foods until you read the full blogpost, including my comment at the end (image by ADAM ) Hah... I knew a newsitem the title of which joins everybody's contemporary "pet supplements", would get your attention. Quasi as a byproduct of one of the hilarious vitamin D + calcium trials in which scientists seek to prevent bone loss and fracture in men and women age 65 and older by supplementation with 700IU (no I am not missing a "0", here) and 500mg calcium per day, Sathi Niramitmahapanya and his colleagues from the  U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University found an interesting and previously not thought of negative correlation between their subjects' plasma levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels and the ratio of poly- to monounsaturated fatty acids in their diets ( Niramitmahapany. 2011 ). Could i...
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