dimanche 10 décembre 2017

Canola oil and mouse neurological system

http://rdcu.be/AUzF

Those authors also wrote this paper

 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/acn3.431/asset/acn3431.pdf?v=1&t=jb0la6n7&s=e29232eae9c42d4188455411d146e3bd646d8015

My comment
1/ Alzheimer’s disease is a very complex illness mainly associated with aging but not always. Animal models are very difficult to engineer because of this complexity
2/ Canola oil is oilseed fat and those grains are far from the wild ones. So it is a mess to incriminate any component of those oilseed fats.
3/ Perhaps olive oil is less different now than before the agricultural era.
4/ eating olives, avocados, coconut, is preferable than the tons of vegetable oil we are using today. Surely we never ate canola seeds or any other oilseeds...

jeudi 7 décembre 2017

Dietary cholesterol is by no mean linked to CVD

1. Berger S et al. Dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 2015 ; 102 : 276-94.
2. Chowdhury R et al. Association of dietary, circulating, and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 2014 ; 160 : 398-406.
3. de Souza RJ et al. Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. BMJ 2015 ; 351 : h3978.
4. Eckel RH et al.; American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 2013 AHA/ACC guideline on lifestyle management to reduce cardiovascular risk: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2014 ; 63 : 2 960-84.
5. Huo Yung Kai S et al. Low-fat and high-fat dairy products are differently related to blood lipids and cardiovascular risk score. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2014 ; 21 : 1 557-67.
6. Bongard V et al. Dairy intakes, erythrocyte membrane phospholipid fatty acids and cardiovascular risk. Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology. August 29-September 2, 2015, London (England). Eur Heart J 2015 ; 36 (Abstract Supplement) : 200. (Best Poster P1358).
7. Sijtsma FP et al. Healthy eating and lower mortality risk in a large cohort of cardiac patients who received state-of-the-art drug treatment. Am J Clin Nutr 2015 ; 102 : 1 527-33.
8. Estruch R et al.; PREDIMED Study Investigators. Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet. N Engl J Med 2013 ; 368 : 1 279-90.
9. Bongard V et al. Food groups associated with a reduced risk of 15-year all-cause death. Eur J Clin Nutr 2016 (in press).

lundi 4 décembre 2017

Starches and the industry

Modified starches[edit]

A modified starch is a starch that has been chemically modified to allow the starch to function properly under conditions frequently encountered during processing or storage, such as high heat, high shear, low pH, freeze/thaw and cooling.
The modified food starches are E coded according to the International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS):[38]
  • 1400 Dextrin
  • 1401 Acid-treated starch
  • 1402 Alkaline-treated starch
  • 1403 Bleached starch
  • 1404 Oxidized starch
  • 1405 Starches, enzyme-treated
  • 1410 Monostarch phosphate
  • 1412 Distarch phosphate
  • 1413 Phosphated distarch phosphate
  • 1414 Acetylated distarch phosphate
  • 1420 Starch acetate
  • 1422 Acetylated distarch adipate
  • 1440 Hydroxypropyl starch
  • 1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate
  • 1443 Hydroxypropyl distarch glycerol
  • 1450 Starch sodium octenyl succinate
  • 1451 Acetylated oxidized starch
INS 1400, 1401, 1402, 1403 and 1405 are in the EU food ingredients without an E-number. Typically modified starches for technical applications are cationic starches, hydroxyethyl starch and carboxymethylated starches.