The presence of Coenzyme Q (CoQ) in food, its role in cellular bioenergetics and antioxidant protection and the key role played by dietary fatty acids on membrane structure support the interest for a wide research concerning the relationship between dietary fats, CoQ content and biochemical behaviour. Several models of peroxidative stress 'in vivo' have been extensively investigated in our labo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the quantitative importance of dietary fatty acids and dietary cholesterol to blood concentrations of total, low density lipoprotein, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol. DESIGN Meta-analysis of metabolic ward studies of solid food diets in healthy volunteers. SUBJECTS 395 dietary experiments (median duration 1 month) among 129 groups of individuals. RESULTS Is...

n engl j med 370;19 nejm.org may 8, 2014 1773 Crisco, companies have used artificial trans fats because of their commercially favorable properties, such as long shelf life, stability during deep frying, and palatability. These fats have therefore been incorporated into a great many foods, including snack and deep-fried foods, baked goods, margarines, and crackers (see graph). The primary dietar...

A study was conducted to differentiate lard, chicken fat, beef fat and mutton fat using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and Elemental Analyzer-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (EA-IRMS). The comparison of overall fatty acid data showed that lard and chicken fat share common characteristics by having palmitic, oleic and linoleic acid as major fatty acids while beef and mutton fats sh...

In this study, we asked the question "does alpha-tocopherol supplementation prevent an increase in total plasma cholesterol (TPC) concentration and reduce the deposition of cholesterol in arterial plaques of rabbits fed atherogenic diets?" Isocaloric diets containing 0.1% cholesterol to induce atherosclerosis were enriched in one of three fats: saturated fats (SAT), monounsaturated fats (MONO),...

Wistar male rats were administrated Various Kinds of fats orally by a stomach tube, and each lipid content and fatty acid composition of each lipid fraction in the lung and liver were measured at time intervals of 3, 6 and 9 hours after administration. Both lung and liver showed increase of each lipid content, especially that of phospholipid content, 6 hours after the administration of safflowe...

Establishing the distinguishable characteristics of lard from other common animal fats might be helpful for authentication initiatives in foods and feeds. In this study, fatty acid triacylglycerol compositions, thermal spectroscopic native (NL), respectively, were compared with those beef tallow (BT), mutton (MT), chicken fat (CF) by using gas liquid chromatography (GLC), high-performance (HPLC...

The feeding of a diet rich in unsaturated fats to rabbits produced no significant alteration of the serum cholesterol level, while the feeding of a diet rich in saturated fats produced an elevation of the serum cholesterol without the development of experimental atherosclerosis. The addition of unsaturated fnts to a diet rich in cholesterol failed to prevent hypercholesterolemia and experimenta...

BACKGROUND The effects of dietary fats on the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) have traditionally been estimated from their effects on LDL cholesterol. Fats, however, also affect HDL cholesterol, and the ratio of total to HDL cholesterol is a more specific marker of CAD than is LDL cholesterol. OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate the effects of individual fatty acids on the ratis of ...