Re: Saturated and Trans Fats bad for older female cognitive function.

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:03:44 -0400, Susan <susan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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W. Baker wrote:

Interesting, but there is no mention of how well contrlled these women's
blood glucose control was. without tht information it is hard to know the
effect of type of fat consumptions varies with fair, good or excellent
control. For those of us who work to maintain A1cs <6 it would be
important to know this information.


Saturated fat is incredibly valuable for cognitive function, I'd bet.

But not if it's a marker for fries, Coke and a bun, or waffles and
sausage, eggs and toast with home fries...

Susan

Hi Susan,

The brain requires DHA. Fish which is a good source of DHA is a
poor source of saturated fat. So not surprisingly if one has a low
intake of saturated fat one could also have impaired brain function.

I found it strange that the only results quoted in the abstract were
for trans fat.

Does this mean the correlation for saturated fats was less strong?

Also no attempt appears to have been made to separate the
polyunsaturated fat into omega-3 and omega-6. Since most
polyunsaturated fats are omega-6 that is effectively what they are
looking at.

It seems from the choice of research questions that the researchers
are locked into the dated hypothesis that those fats that raise
cholesterol (saturated fats and transfats) are bad and those that
lower cholesterol (omega-6 polyunsaturated fats) are good.
This overlooks the inflammatory aspects of omega-6 fats. The death
rate increases slightly when saturated fats are replaced by omega-6
fats thanks to this problem.

Best wishes,
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