Summaries of the presentations:
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Summary of "Saturated fats: A milk perspective" |
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The recent history of pubic recommendations for dietary intakes of macronutrients have targeted total fat, cholesterol and saturated fat intake as the principle means to improve human health. Such recommendations have been translated into a long term agricultural objective of eliminating these components from human foods.
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Summary of "Origin, metabolism and cellular functions of saturated fatty acids" |
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Short list of data and conclusions.
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Summary of "How does eating dairy products impact health in the long run?" |
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Perceptions of the risks and benefits of milk and other dairy foods have been hopelessly biased by short term studies of the relationships between consumption and the levels of plasma cholesterol, lipid fractions and other vascular risk factors. Evidence from such studies is unbalanced, and possibly misleading, as it ignores the effects of dairy food consumption on other biological mechanisms relevant to vascular and other diseases. The only appropriate basis for food policy and advice is evidence in which the consumption of a food item is related directly to deaths and to incident disease events.
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