A UC Riverside study to motivate your new year’s resolutions: it demonstrates that high-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk.
While other studies have examined the effects of a high-fat diet, this one is unusual in its scope. UCR researchers fed mice three different diets over the course of 24 weeks where at least 40% of the calories came from fat. Then, they looked not only at the microbiome, but also at genetic changes in all four parts of the intestines.
One group of mice ate a diet based on saturated fat from coconut oil, another got a monounsaturated, modified soybean oil, a third got an unmodified soybean oil high in polyunsaturated fat. Compared to a low-fat control diet, all three groups experienced concerning changes in gene expression, the process that turns genetic information into a functional product, such as a protein.
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Good write, Tony. A great deal of controversy about fat, like other dietary concerns, which demand more study [individually] and effort to weed good advice from misinformed hype. Keep banging away at it. Perhaps you’ll get Americans to pay attention to diet, applying common sense and above all, moderation.
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Thanks!
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Hi Tony,
It’s a been a while since you’ve posted anything and I’m hoping you are well and just haven’t come across anything interesting!
Thinking of you,
Penny
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Tony, I haven’t seen any posts by you in two months. I’m concerned. I’m hoping you’re just taking a break. If you can, please give us an update. I am praying so hard for you. I miss your posts and our chatting back-and-forth. Your blog is definitely my favorite. And I feel as though I’ve gotten to know you as a good friend. I’m thinking of you Tony.
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