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out of Africa.
Byline: Jackie Jadrnak Journal Staff Writer
UNM researchers' nutritional biochemistry studies take them to Nigeria
Eat a high-fat diet crammed with dairy products like butter and cheese, and what would you expect?
If you went by the conventional wisdom of medicine in this country, you would expect high levels of cholesterol to clog your arteries and set you up for heart disease.
But two Albuquerque researchers have found this assumption doesn't apply to a group of herders in northern Nigeria. The Fulani people get half of the energy in their diets from fat and one-half of that fat is saturated yet their cholesterol levels are normal, according to research conducted by Robert Glew, professor, and Dorothy VanderJagt, research assistant professor. Both are in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of New Mexico.
Their findings were…
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