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...study published yesterday in PLoS Medicine and led by Dariush Mozaffarian, an assistant professor of epidemiology at HSPH, showed that replacing saturated fats with a higher than previously recommended percentage of polyunsaturated fats was associated with a significantly decreased risk of coronary heart disease, the leading killer of adults in developing countries...
...Mozaffarian and his team, which included HSPH researchers Sarah Wallace and Renata Micha, examined the results of several randomized clinical trials of participants who increased their intake of polyunsaturated fats for a year...
...encouraging the replacement of saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats and by increasing the percentage of calories that can be allocated to polyunsaturated fats, Mozaffarian said the study’s results are relevant to both industry and individuals...
...Mozaffarian said that people often replace fat with carbohydrates. Food producers also frequently substitute saturated fat for trans fat—both of which have detrimental effects...
...Mozaffarian said it generally takes ten to twenty years for new research to influence guidelines and for those guidelines to reach public consciousness. Frank B. Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at HSPH, said this study could begin the “paradigm shift” to focus on “quality of fat” instead of just the quantity...