OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of dietary intervention with canola or olive oil in comparison with commonly used refined oil in Asian Indians with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a 6-month intervention study including 93 males with NAFLD, matched for age and body mass index (BMI). Subjects were randomized into three groups to receive olive oil (n...

Cod-liver oil is the fixed oil expressed from the fresh liver of the codfish (Gadus morrhua, Linn.) by the application of low pressure steam at a temperature not exceeding 85?C., and freed from solid fat by filtration at about 0?C. It occurs as a pale yellow liquid with a slightly fishy but not rancid odour, and a bland, slightlyfishy taste. Amongst fatty oils, cod-liver oil occupies a peculiar...

The effects of the long-term administration of the dietary fats coconut oil and corn oil at 31% of calories with or without 0.1% (wt/wt) dietary cholesterol on plasma lipoproteins, apolipoproteins (apo), hepatic lipid content, and hepatic apoA-I, apoB, apoE, and low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor mRNA abundance were examined in 27 cebus monkeys. Relative to the corn oil-fed animals, no sign...

Carcinogenesis is a pathological process which may be mimicked in experimental models. The entire process may be subdivided into three steps: initiation, promotion and progression. The three steps of this model are routinely generated in mouse skin tissue, using the carcinogen 7,12 dimethylbenz [a]anthracene (DMBA) as an initiator, and cocarcinogens such as 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate ...

This study was conducted to confirm that medium chain triglyceride (MCT) feeding itself would increase hepatic lipogenic enzyme activity without causing a lack of essential fatty acids (EFA) in the liver. Male weaning rats were fed for 11 weeks on diets containing 2% corn oil and 13% various fats: MCT, corn oil, tripalmitin or beef tallow, respectively. MCT feeding was clearly shown to increase...

OBJECTIVE To answer the question whether dietary strawberry seed oil rich in α-linolenic acid and linoleic acid (29.3 and 47.2% of total fatty acids, respectively) can beneficially affect disorders induced by the consumption of an obesogenic diet. DESIGN Thirty-two male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to four groups of eight animals each and fed with a basal or obesogenic (high in fat and ...

Fig. I. Absorption spectra of vitamin Ai (Ai), vitamin A2 (A2), subvitamin A (S), kitol (K), anhydrovitamin Ai (Ai'), anhydrovitamin A2 (AD and anhydrosubvitamin A (S'). to isolate kitol having the absorption maximum at 290 mμ.1> Furthermore, substances related to vitamin A such as anhydro vitam:ln A and subvitamin A have been confirmed in ordinary fish liver oils. Also in the whale liver oil, ...

In order to study the mechanism by which increasing unsaturation of dietary fat lowers HDL-cholesterol levels, we studied various measures of HDL metabolism in hamsters fed with fats with different degrees of saturation. Hamsters were fed on a cholesterol-enriched (1 g/kg) semipurified diet containing 200 g/kg of maize oil, olive oil, or palm oil for 9 weeks. Increasing saturation of dietary fa...

The clinical implications of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) derive from their potential to progress to fibrosis and cirrhosis. Inappropriate dietary fat intake, excessive intake of soft drinks, insulin resistance and increased oxidative stress results in increased free fatty acid delivery to the liver and increased hepatic triglyceride (TG) accumulation. An olive oil-rich diet decre...