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Lipids and Human Health

Carbohydrate-Lipid Effects on Cholesterol Metabolism

School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles

ABSTRACT

It is somewhat refreshing to transfer some attention to the subject of carbohydrates and away from the more controversial nutrient constituents, e.g., saturated and polyunsaturated fats, trans fatty acids, oxidized and polymerized products of heat-abused fatty acids, and cholesterol and its esters. So much has been written about the role of these lipids in health and, especially, in disease, so many experiments have been performed on a gamut of experimental insects, birds, and mammals, and so many theories and hypotheses have been proposed on the bases of results from these and from epidemiological studies, that, by comparison, reports on effects of carbohydrates in normal and pathological situations, with the exception of diabetes, have been practically neglected. Although the Food and Agriculture Handbook for 1959 (9) contains the statement "there is no definite nutritional requirement for carbohydrates," it is a well known fact that carbohydrate is the preferred source of energy for the body.