Lipidomics Shows health benefits of switching to plant-based fats
Switching from a diet high in saturated animal fats to one rich in plant-based unsaturated fats affects the fat composition in the blood, which in turn influences long-term disease risk.
A recent study published in Nature Medicine, conducted by a team of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, the German Institute of Human Nutrition, and several other universities, showed that it is possible to accurately measure diet-related fat changes in the blood and directly link them to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the importance of healthy diets in preventing chronic diseases and recommends replacing saturated fats with plant-based unsaturated fats to lower the risk of heart and metabolic diseases. However, these guidelines are only moderately certain due to the limitations of past studies.
This new study overcomes these limitations by using a method called ‘lipidomics’ to closely analyze the fats in the blood. The detailed analysis helps link diet and disease in a new and effective way. The study combined controlled dietary intervention studies, where participants follow strict diets, with long-term health data from previous cohort studies.
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