BIOLOGY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Monounsaturated Fat, Trans Fat, Saturated Fat

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Reading guide reading assignment: chapter 6 in nutrition for a changing world. Research showed that high-fat diets were associated with an increase in. Heart disease was the largest killer in denmark, united states and blood cholesterol levels leading to heart disease more. Relationship between dietary fat intake and health was not consistent. Some populations (greeks) followed a mediterranean diet. Ate large amounts of fat, but had low rates of heart disease. Greenlanders and greeks surprisingly did not die of heart disease, but infections. 32 years old and working on his phd. Wanted to find a new way to screen blood for different types of fats. Dyerberg visited as a young doctor in greenland. He wanted to see why greenlanders were less likely to die of heart disease than similarly aged people in denmark even though they ate a high-fat diet. Bang and dyerberg collected blood samples from 130 adults. Ran the blood through a machine that analyzed lipid contents.

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