Tweet At the FNCE last November in Boston, there was a debate titled “The Great Fat Debate – Is There Validity in the Age Old Dietary Guidance?” The scientist participants were Walter Willett (Harvard), Dariush Mozaffarian (Harvard), Alice Lichtenstein (Tufts), and Lewis Kuller (Pittsburgh). If you weren’t in attendance (like myself), thankfully the ADA put [...]
Category archives for Lipids
Tweet The AJCN has a nice short “consensus” paper from many of the top researchers examining the supposed link between saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, which is open access here. Arne Astrup and Walter Willett organized an invitation-only symposium last year with big names in nutrition research; among the other participants were Frank B Hu, [...]
Tweet There are thousands of lipid species in our bodies that represent 6 categories, but we only usually hear about the subcategories of cholesterol and triglycerides. We don’t yet understand how they are all altered in response to various nutrients, dietary and lifestyle patterns and so on. Recent advancements have made it possible to analyze [...]