Abstract
Based on literature data, the hypothesis is advanced that in human subjects a direct mathematical relationship exists between the average fatty acid composition of the habitual diet and that of the lipid stores of subcutaneous adipose tissue. Since the half-life of adipose tissue fatty acids in man is in the order of 600 days, the fatty acid pattern of depot fat provides a qualitative measure of the fat intake over a period of 2 to 3 years. It is concluded that in long-term experimental and epidemiological nutritional surveys the adipose tissue fatty acid pattern of the subjects is a useful index of the average composition of their habitual dietary fat.
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Beynen, A. C., Hermus, R. J. J., & Hautvast, J. G. A. J. (1980). A mathematical relationship between the fatty acid composition of the diet and that of the adipose tissue in man. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 33(1), 81–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/33.1.81
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