Family Medicine Update: Effects of Step-Wise Increases in Dietary Carbohydrate on Circulating Saturated Fatty Acids and Palmitoleic Acid in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Effects of Step-Wise Increases in Dietary Carbohydrate on Circulating Saturated Fatty Acids and Palmitoleic Acid in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Dietary carbohydrate intake is more closely related to plasma palmitoleic acid, a biomarker consistently associated with adverse health outcomes. The serum saturated fatty acid level remained the same across a wide range of dietary saturated fatty acid intake. (PLoS One. 2014 Nov 21;9(11):e113605.)