Study title and authors:
Human fatty acid synthesis is stimulated by a eucaloric low fat, high carbohydrate diet.
L C Hudgins, M Hellerstein, C Seidman, R Neese, J Diakun, and J Hirsch
Laboratory of Human Behavior and Metabolism, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA. hudgins@rockvax.rockefeller.educ
This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC507283/
This study sought to find out if a low fat or a high fat diet raised the "bad" very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) triglyceride levels.
For 25 days subjects consumed either:
(i) Low fat liquid formula diets (10% of calories as fat and 75% as glucose polymers)
(ii) High fat diets (40% of calories as fat and 45% as glucose polymers)
This Study founds eating low fat, high carbohydrate diets increases 'bad' cholesterol
VLDL triglyceride levels. Eating a high fat diet has virtually no effect on VLDL triglyceride levels. Hudgins notes that high VLDL triglyceride levels are associated with heart disease.
