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Weight Concerns
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Unsaturated fats are considered “good” fats in the right ratio. You can tell that a fat is unsaturated if it is liquid at room temperature. Unsaturated fats can be monounsaturated or polyunsaturated. The best-known product containing monounsaturated fats is olive oil (think the Mediterranean diet). Canola oil, peanut oil, avocados, and some nuts are other examples of monounsaturated fats. The two main types of polyunsaturated fats are omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids. Foods with omega-3 fatty acids include salmon, mackerel, sardines, and flaxseeds. Foods with omega-6 fatty acids include vegetable oils such as corn, safflower, soybean, sunflower, and walnut oil.
Cardiovascular disease
Published in Sally Robinson, Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health, 2021
Omega 3 fats lower the risk of blood clots (thrombosis). Most people in the UK need to eat more of these in addition to replacing saturated fats. Monounsaturated fats
Herbal Management for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Published in Megh R. Goyal, Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, Ademola Olabode Ayeleso, T. Jesse Joel, Sujogya Kumar Panda, The Therapeutic Properties of Medicinal Plants, 2019
Huma Bader-Ul Ain, Farhan Saeed, Muhammad Umair Arshad, Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria
Quality and quantity of fat are the most important parameters for the healthy life and against PCOS patients [18]. As far as the low-fat diet is concerned, it is an important parameter in reducing the weight, metabolic, and reproductive symptoms, and improving the insulin sensitivity, long-term maintenance of weight loss [103]. Monounsaturated fat-enriched diet is important for the reduction in weight [106]. High protein diet reduces the weight and the PCOS symptoms [103]. It targets the depression and self-esteem [106]. Morenga et al., [109] compared the effects of a high protein diet and high fiber diet against the PCOS. It was found that both diets effectively reduced the weight, total body fat, waist circumference, total, and HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and fasting blood glucose. However, a high protein diet was more effective than a high fiber diet in reducing fat and blood pressure.
A nine year follow-up study of patients with lymphoedema cholestasis syndrome 1 (LCS1/Aagenaes syndrome)
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 2018
Monica Drivdal, Kirsten B. Holven, Kjetil Retterstøl, Øystein Aagenaes, Bengt Frode Kase
When comparing the dietary intake of the patients after nine years’ follow-up, the only significant dietary change was an increase in fibre intake (p = .039) (Table 5). Compared to controls, the patients had a significantly lower energy intake from saturated fat in the baseline study (p = .048) and a significantly lower fibre intake at follow-up (p = .048). Fibre intake was below recommendations in patients but increased in both patients and controls from baseline to follow-up. This shift was also seen in the general Norwegian population (Norkost dietary studies) from 1997 to 2012 [11,12]. Compared to recommendations, patients had a slightly higher intake of refined sugars and saturated fat, both at baseline and follow-up. In the baseline study, intake of monounsaturated fats in the patient group was below recommendations.
ADIPOQ + 45T≥G Polymorphism, Food Ingestion, and Metabolic Syndrome in Elderly Persons
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2018
Vanessa R. Retamoso, Patrícia Maurer, Lyana B. Feijóo, Graziela M. S. Tavares, Vanusa Manfredini, Jacqueline C. E. Piccoli
Muniz et al. (21) showed in a study that the majority of the population investigated had the habit of ingesting milk in groups with and without metabolic syndrome and associated chronic diseases. The higher frequency of daily milk consumption that this study found among the group with metabolic syndrome is corroborated by Park et al. (22), who observed that consumption of milk can relate to the presence of metabolic syndrome in adults. This work has split what was consumed into three categories: poor consumption, proportional consumption, and overconsumption. A significant relationship was found between high milk intake and the incidence of metabolic syndrome. In addition, the intake of total fat, saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat was investigated, and the results showed that low fat intake (< 15%) is possibly a predictor of metabolic syndrome cases in the study population.
Markers of a plant-based diet relate to memory and executive function in older adults
Published in Nutritional Neuroscience, 2022
Michelle M. Ramey, Grant S. Shields, Andrew P. Yonelinas
Studies of the Mediterranean diet—a dietary pattern that shares some commonalities with a plant-based diet—have suggested that monounsaturated fat is a primary factor in the health benefits of the diet [43,44]. We sought to determine whether monounsaturated fat might be related to cognitive performance as well. The relation between monounsaturated fat intake and the three cognitive outcomes was assessed using linear models with relevant demographic covariates (i.e. BMI, age, sex, education), as well as covariates for calories and total fat intake to assess monounsaturated fat intake in relation to total intake. Associations were nonsignificant between monounsaturated fat and recall (β=.025, p=.70), monounsaturated fat and digit symbol substitution (β=−.014, p=.80), and monounsaturated fat and fluency (β=.08, p=.24). In Bayesian implementations of the same models as above, Bayes factors indicated substantial evidence for the null for recall (BF01=8.08) and digit symbol substitution (BF01=8.85), and inconclusive evidence for fluency (BF01=.94). For comparison, the equivalent analyses were carried out with polyunsaturated fat as the independent variable in place of monounsaturated fat: unlike monounsaturated fat intake, polyunsaturated fat intake was significantly associated with better performance on each cognitive task (recall: β=.07, p=.041; digit symbol substitution: β=.08, p=.008; fluency: β=.09, p=.013). Taken together, this suggests that there is evidence against—or in the case of fluency, no evidence in support of—monounsaturated fat intake being related to memory or executive function.