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cheftrina · #1 10-02-2005, 02:45 PM

This article came out in May of this year, but I just ran across it while surfing around. In the May 2005 issue of "Cell Metabolism", a study done at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicated that fat stores on the body would not be utilized without "new" fat consumed in the diet. They also found that mice put on a no-fat diet developed fatty livers.
Especially interesting:

Quote:

New fat is the fat that is consumed in food or is newly made in the liver as glucose is converted to fat by fatty acid synthase, the enzyme missing in the lab mice. When the system takes in high amounts of glucose, fatty acid synthase in the liver makes it into new fat.
In addition to fatty livers, the transgenic mice developed low blood sugar levels on the zero fat diet. Both symptoms were reversed with dietary fat, and in fact on a normal diet, the transgenic mice were no different than normal mice in terms of body weight, body fat, metabolic rate and food intake.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...at_newfat.html

Maggie · #2 10-02-2005, 09:22 PM

Interesting piece, Trina.

Thanks for posting!

paladin · #3 10-03-2005, 04:28 AM

Hmm...

I will have to look up the PDF of this one.

Thanks for the heads up...

Rob · #4 10-03-2005, 09:35 AM

Thanks Trina! I had missed this article.

BC · #5 10-03-2005, 01:44 PM

Hmmm! Very interesting!

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