Sci Rep. 2020 May 18;10(1):8161. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64960-y. Stephanie Venn-Watson 1 2, Richard Lumpkin 3, Edward A Dennis 4 PMID: 32424181 PMCID: PMC7235264 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64960-y Free PMC article Abstract Dietary odd-chain saturated fatty acids (OCFAs) are present in trace levels in dairy fat and some fish and plants. Higher circulating concentrations of OCFAs, pentadecanoic acid (C15:0) […]
Posted on June 24, 2014 | 161 Comments The original lipid hypothesis stated, more or less, that lowering blood cholesterol would reduce premature mortality from heart disease. At the time, it was thought that dietary cholesterol and saturated fat increased the ‘bad’ type of blood cholesterol, so the advice was to restrict those foods. All of that was wrong. […]