Expensive nut fats?

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Hi All,

Nuts and canola oil of similar fatty acid composition have the same effect on

heart

disease risk, it seems, despite earlier suggestions to the contrary. It being a

randomized control study was good.

Is it not cheaper to take canola oil?

See the not pdf-available paper abstract below.

Chisholm A, Mc Auley K, Mann J, S, Skeaff M.

Cholesterol lowering effects of nuts compared with a Canola oil enriched cereal

of

similar fat composition.

Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2005 Aug;15(4):284-92.

PMID: 16054553

.... Small quantities of nuts protect against subsequent cardiovascular risk.

There

is speculation that the cholesterol lowering effect associated with nut

consumption

.... may be caused by some other [than fats] component. ... Canola oil based

cereal

with a comparable fatty acid profile ... Twenty-eight men and women with mean

(s.d.)

levels of total and low density lipoprotein cholesterol of 6.0 (1.1) mmol/L, and

4.1

(1.0) mmol/L, respectively and a mean body mass index (BMI) of 26.9 (3.2) kg/m2

took

part in a randomised cross over trial. For two periods of six weeks, separated

by a

four-week washout, participants were asked to consume a low saturated fat diet,

which included either 30 g/d nuts (nut diet) or one serving of a cereal

containing

Canola oil (cereal diet). There were no significant differences in the lipids,

lipoproteins, plasma fatty acids or other variables between the two diets at the

end

of the study. Total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol

(LDL-C)

were lower on both experimental diets than at baseline, 0.51 mmol/L and 0.40

mmol/L

(p<0.001, p<0.01), respectively on the nut diet and 0.42 mmol/L and 0.37 mmol/L

(p<0.001, p<0.01), respectively on the cereal diet. ...

Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@...

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