ReviewNutrition bulletin2022
Saturated fats, dairy foods and cardiovascular health: No longer a curious paradox?
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- The effect of fermented dairy intake and abdominal obesity in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of reducing saturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease in adults: an umbrella review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Cheese consumption and multiple health outcomes: an umbrella review and updated meta-analysis of prospective studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- Comparison of the impact of saturated fat from full-fat yogurt or low-fat yogurt and butter on cardiometabolic factors: a randomized cross-over trial.European journal of nutrition · 2024Trial
- Dietary Ewe's Yogurt Intake Selectively Modulates HDL Subfractions Without Altering LDL Particle Size in Women: A Six-Week Intervention Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Higher vegetable intake is associated with lower diabetes risk: cross-sectional evidence from the STEPS 2016 survey in Iran.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- The Future of Food Processing-A Food Science and Technology Perspective. Proceedings of a Roundtable Event.Nutrition bulletin · 2026Article
- Association of Number of Teeth Present With Nutrient Intake and Food Group Consumption.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Neurobiochemical Effects of a High-Fat Diet: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases.Biology · 2025Review
- Dairy-Derived Bioactive Peptides and the Risk of Prostate Cancer among Iranian Men: A Case-Control Study.Preventive nutrition and food science · 2025Article
- Fermented dairy products intake and stroke risk: analyses of NHANES 2007-2018 data.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The Cardioprotective Effects of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Depends on the Balance Between Their Anti- and Pro-Oxidative Properties.Nutrients · 2024Review
- The Dairy Matrix: Its Importance, Definition, and Current Application in the Context of Nutrition and Health.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Effect of different forms of coconut on the lipid profile in normal free-living healthy subjects: A randomized controlled trial (Phase II).Global epidemiology · 2024Article
- A vegetable fat-based diet delays psychomotor and cognitive development compared with maternal dairy fat intake in infant gray mouse lemurs.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Partial substitutions of animal with plant protein foods in Canadian diets have synergies and trade-offs among nutrition, health and climate outcomes.Nature food · 2024Article
- Saturated fats, dairy foods and cardiovascular health: No longer a curious paradox?Nutrition bulletin · 2022Review
- Walnut Oil Oleogels as Milk Fat Replacing System for Commercially Available Chocolate Butter.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Cow and Ewe Cheeses Made with Saffron: Characterization of Bioactive Compounds and Their Antiproliferative Effect in Cervical Adenocarcinoma (HeLa) and Breast Cancer (MDA-MB-231) Cells.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Long-Term and Carryover Effects of Supplementation with Whole Oilseeds on Methane Emission, Milk Production and Milk Fatty Acid Profile of Grazing Dairy Cows.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major cause of death and morbidity in many parts of the world, and many dietary guidelines limit the intake of saturated fatty acids (SFA) as they are regarded as an important risk factor for CVDs due to their association with increased blood cholesterol. Dairy foods are often a major contributor to dietary intake of SFA, and since many dietary guidelines contain restrictions on SFA intake, this can lead to a moderation of dairy food intake despite meta-analyses generally showing dairy to have a neutral or negative association with CVDs. Many prospective studies and randomised controlled trials do not support a simple positive association between SFA intake and the risk of atherosclerotic CVD and its components although some early studies had a number of methodological weakness. Studies that included blood cholesterol data do broadly support the positive relationship between SFA and blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) but without increased CVD risk resulting, despite LDL being a causal factor in atherosclerotic CVD. These data suggest that LDL-C alone is not a consistently good predictor or cause of CVD risk, perhaps particularly in relation to dairy food consumption although some non-dairy food studies have also shown LDL-C reduction was not reflected in reduced CVD risk. This narrative review examines some reasons for these findings. Overall, restrictions on dairy food intake do not seem warranted, although there remains a need to further understand the association of different dairy food types with chronic diseases, perhaps particularly for type 2 diabetes.
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