Saturated fats linked to diabetes

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Date: 11/09/04 

Date: 09 Nov 2004 17:58:03 GMT

Regardless of some current nutritional theology, this study suggests it
is, among fats, the sat fats that contribute to type 2 diabetes, other
studies could be mentioned also, which in general show substituting sat
fat with mono fats lowers such risk and may even have a protective effect:

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/2/302

"The presence of type 2 diabetes is especially associated with animal
fat intake. In both RDM and UDM, distribution of diabetes along the
quartiles of animal fat intake shows the same trends--namely, cases
accumulate to the higher quartiles of animal fat intake, whereas
control subjects show exactly the opposite. Moreover, the relative
risk of diabetes in the upper two quartiles in comparison to the lower
is significantly higher, ranging from 1.8 for RDM to 3.1 for UDM. Thus
our data provide evidence for an association between animal fat intake
and the presence of^ diabetes."

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