High saturated fat meat diet lowers risk of heart disease compared to low fat diet

This study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2015 Jul 15. pii: ajcn109116

 

Study title and authors:

Diets with high-fat cheese, high-fat meat, or carbohydrate on cardiovascular risk markers in overweight postmenopausal women: a randomized crossover trial.

Thorning TK, Raziani F, Bendsen NT, Astrup A, Tholstrup T, Raben A.

Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark tkt@nexs.ku.dk.

 

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26178720

High levels of HDL cholesterol and apo A-1 are associated with a lower risk of heart disease.

This study explored the effects of high saturated fat cheese or meat based diets, compared to a low fat diet, on heart disease markers. The study included 14 overweight postmenopausal women who consumed each of the following three diets for two weeks. (All diets contained the same amount of calories.)
(i)  High-cheese (96-120-g) diet.
(ii) High-fatty meat group (contained the same amount of saturated fat as the high-cheese diet.)
(iii) Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet (contained lean meat and more carbohydrates than the other diets.)

The study found:
(a) The high-cheese diet led to a 5% increase in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels compared to the low-fat, high carbohydrate diet.
(b) The high-cheese diet led to a 8% increase in apo A-1 levels compared to the low-fat, high carbohydrate diet.
(c) The high-fatty meat diet led to a 8% increase in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels compared to the low-fat, high carbohydrate diet.
(d) The high-fatty meat diet led to a 4% increase in apo A-1 levels compared to the low-fat, high carbohydrate diet.

Thorning concluded: "Diets with cheese and meat as primary sources of saturated fat cause higher HDL cholesterol and apo A-I and, therefore, appear to be less atherogenic than is a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet".



High fat dairy consumption LOWERS the risk of diabetes

Published in the Ann Intern Med. 2010 Dec 21;153(12):790-9.

Trans-palmitoleic acid, metabolic risk factors, and new-onset diabetes in U.S. adults: a cohort study.
Mozaffarian D, Cao H, King IB, Lemaitre RN, Song X, Siscovick DS, Hotamisligil GS.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. dmozaffa@hsph.harvard.edu

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21173413

The study found that whole fat dairy consumption was most strongly associated with higher trans-palmitoleate levels.

Higher levels of trans-palmitoleate were associated with a lower BMI, a lower waist circumference, lower total cholesterol and lower levels of C-reactive protein (a marker of inflammation).

In people who did not have diabetes at the start of the study, greater levels of trans-palmitoleate were associated with a lower risk of new-onset diabetes over the subsequent 10 years.

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Eating high quantities of full fat dairy products lowers the risk of death from heart disease by 69%

Published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2010) 64, 569–577; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2010.45;

Dairy consumption and patterns of mortality of Australian adults
M Bonthuis1,2, M C B Hughes1, T I Ibiebele1, A C Green1 and J C van der Pols1
1Cancer and Population Studies Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
2Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

This study can be accessed at: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.html

This study looked at adults over a 15 year period and found that people who ate the most full fat dairy products had a 69% lower risk of death from heart disease than those who ate the least.

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High dairy intake reduces death rates by 13%

Published in Lipids DOI: 10.1007/s11745-010-3412-5

The Consumption of Milk and Dairy Foods and the Incidence of Vascular Disease and Diabetes: An Overview of the Evidence
Peter C. Elwood, Janet E. Pickering, D. Ian Givens and John E. Gallacher

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k2475344067821um/

The paper looked at the studies which compared the health effects on subjects with the highest dairy consumption relative to those with the lowest intake.

This meta-analyses of the studies suggest a reduction in risk in the subjects with the highest dairy consumption relative to those with the lowest intake by:
13% for all-cause deaths
8% for ischaemic heart disease
21% for stroke
15% for diabetes

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Milk and dairy food lowers the risk of stroke, heart disease and diabetes

Published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 27, No. 6, 723S-734S (2008)

The Survival Advantage of Milk and Dairy Consumption: an Overview of Evidence from Cohort Studies of Vascular Diseases, Diabetes and Cancer
Peter C. Elwood, MD, D. Ian Givens, PhD, Andrew D. Beswick, BSc, Ann M. Fehily, PhD, Janet E. Pickering, MSc and John Gallacher, PhD
Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, Cardiff University (P.C.E., J.G.)
Nutritional Sciences Research Unit, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading (D.I.G.)
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol (A.D.B.), UNITED KINGDOM

This paper can be accesed at: http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/6/723S
 
From a meta-analysis of 15 studies for subjects with high milk or dairy consumption:
 
The risk of stroke was lowered by 16%, the risk of heart disease was lowered by 21% and the risk of diabetes was lowered by 8% relative to the risk in those with low consumption of milk and dairy.
 
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