"GysdeJongh" > wrote in message
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> Ellen K. wrote:
>> GysdeJongh wrote
>
>> Water, natural oil blend (palm fruit, soybean, flaxseed, canola, and
>> olive oils), contains less than 2% of salt, natural and artificial
>> flavor, vegetable monoglycerides and sorbitan ester of fatty acids
>> (emulsifiers), soy lecithin, dl-a-tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E),
>> vitamin A palmitate, lactic acid, beta-carotene color, and potassium
>> sorbate, TBHQ and calcium disoldium EDTA (to preserve freshness).
>
> good stuff, but no phytosterols. There now is what Quentin used to call
> the yuppy margarine with added phytosterols. I'm not implying that it is
> healthy but here is an abstract :
>
> Metabolism. 2002 Feb;51(2):189-94.
> Effects of phytosterol ester-enriched margarine on plasma lipoproteins in
> mild to moderate hypercholesterolemia are related to basal cholesterol and
> fat intake.
> Dietary phytosterols have been reported to lower total and low-density
> lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. The improvements of LDL, HDL, total
> cholesterol, apolipoprotein B concentrations, and LDL/HDL cholesterol
> ratio during the daily consumption of a phytosterol ester-enriched
> margarine were most marked in those subjects with a high dietary intake of
> cholesterol, energy, total fat, and saturated fatty acids and with high
> baseline cholesterol absorption.
> PMID: 11833047
>

The abstract says its conclusions apply to daily consumption. Do you think
this is important enough to switch if I'm only eating two servings a week?

>> Why wouldn't including fat in a meal cause the calories to be
>> absorbed more slowly and therefore DECREASE the metabolic load?
>
> there is more than 1 peak : glucose, fat, insulin, calories etc. We only
> measure the first. If we include fat the glucose peak might be later, but
> there still is a fat peak (which we don't see). The fat peak will be
> smaller if we include less fat in our meal. All theory
>

This is getting to be too many things to worry about.

> Gys
>