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A new Norwegian diet intervention study (FATFUNC), performed by
researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research at the
University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet
hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary
fat and particularly saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.
The researchers found strikingly similar health effects of diets
based on either lowly processed carbohydrates or fats. In the randomized
controlled trial, 38 men with abdominal obesity followed a dietary
pattern high in either carbohydrates or fat, of which about half was
saturated. Fat mass in the abdominal region, liver and heart was
measured with accurate analyses, along with a number of key risk factors
for cardiovascular disease.
"The very high intake of total and saturated fat did not increase the
calculated risk of cardiovascular diseases," says professor and
cardiologist Ottar Nygård who contributed to the study.
"Participants on the very-high-fat diet also had substantial
improvements in several important cardiometabolic risk factors, such as
ectopic fat storage, blood pressure, blood lipids (triglycerides),
insulin and blood sugar."
High quality food is healthier
Both groups had similar intakes of energy, proteins, polyunsaturated
fatty acids, the food types were the same and varied mainly in quantity,
and intake of added sugar was minimized.
"We here looked at effects of total and saturated fat in the context
of a healthy diet rich in fresh, lowly processed and nutritious foods,
including high amounts of vegetables and rice instead of flour-based
products," says PhD candidate Vivian Veum.
"The fat sources were also lowly processed, mainly butter, cream and cold-pressed oils."
Total energy intake was within the normal range. Even the
participants who increased their energy intake during the study showed
substantial reductions in fat stores and disease risk.
"Our findings indicate that the overriding principle of a healthy
diet is not the quantity of fat or carbohydrates, but the quality of the
foods we eat," says PhD candidate Johnny Laupsa-Borge.
Saturated fat increases the “good” cholesterol
Saturated fat has been thought to promote cardiovascular diseases by
raising the “bad” LDL cholesterol in the blood. But even with a higher
fat intake in the FATFUNC study compared to most comparable studies, the
authors found no significant increase in LDL cholesterol. Rather, the
"good" cholesterol increased only on the very-high-fat diet.
"These results indicate that most healthy people probably tolerate a
high intake of saturated fat well, as long as the fat quality is good
and total energy intake is not too high. It may even be healthy," says
Ottar Nygård.
"Future studies should examine which people or patients may need to
limit their intake of saturated fat," assistant professor Simon Nitter
Dankel points out, who led the study together with the director of the
laboratory clinics, professor Gunnar Mellgren, at Haukeland university
hospital in Bergen, Norway.
"But the alleged health risks of eating good-quality fats have been
greatly exaggerated. It may be more important for public health to
encourage reductions in processed flour-based products, highly processed
fats and foods with added sugar," he says.
The study was published online on November 30 2016 in The American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
Facts: The FATFUNC-study
* The Study is named (FATFUNC) and was performed by researchers at
the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research, Department of Clinical
Science at the University of Bergen.
* In the randomized controlled
trial, 38 men with abdominal obesity followed a dietary pattern high in
either carbohydrates (53 % of total energy, in line with typical
official recommendations) or fat (71 % of total energy, of which about
half was saturated).
* Fat mass in the abdominal region, liver and
heart was measured with accurate analyses (computed tomography, CT),
along with a number of key risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
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