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Jim Mann's new study, feeding a high soybean oil (40% fat) diet to Chinese. Worsens microbial diversity or something. But anyone here could tell him soybean oil is no bueno. Commensal bacteria can only metabolise SFAs, not PUFAs.
radionz.co.nz/national/progr…
radionz.co.nz/national/progr…
Listening to this gives you a good idea of how willing the old guard are to misrepresent our diets in order to still be able to criticise them.
It's as if Mann's a lawyer, not a doctor. He's gone well beyond trying to convince the Chinese to cut back on Amazonian soybean oil.
It's as if Mann's a lawyer, not a doctor. He's gone well beyond trying to convince the Chinese to cut back on Amazonian soybean oil.
Good work by Jessie Mulligan bringing out the finer details of this study in the interview with Jim Mann. @radionz
Good microbes don't like lots of polyunsaturates like soy oil, that's why yoghurt has to be made with high-saturated fat dairy or coconut.
scimex.org/newsfeed/benef…
Good microbes don't like lots of polyunsaturates like soy oil, that's why yoghurt has to be made with high-saturated fat dairy or coconut.
scimex.org/newsfeed/benef…
Known since 1945 - The effect of unsaturated fatty acids on Lactobacillus helveticus and other Gram-positive micro-organisms.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
