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Fat's fate depends on its source

A healthy metabolism requires a healthy dose of fat, suggests a new study published in the May issue of Cell Metabolism. Fats taken in directly from the diet or generated from sugars spark a cascade of gene activity in the liver necessary for healthy blood levels of sugar, cholesterol, and other fats, according to the researchers.

Old fat stores alone failed to set those critical metabolic pathways in motion, they found. The findings in mice suggest that normal metabolism requires so-called "new" fat--further evidence that a healthy diet should include an adequate source of fat.

"De novo synthesis of fat is an energy-expensive process whose role in adult mammals is poorly understood," said study senior author Clay Semenkovich, of Washington University School of Medicine. "The current study supports the notion that the source of fats affects their physiology. New fats are required to burn fat normally and to maintain glucose and cholesterol levels within the normal range.

"These findings underscore the importance of a balanced diet for healthy metabolism and weight loss," he added.

The results further suggest that specially engineered fats might boost healthy liver metabolism, offering an alternative mechanism for fighting chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, Semenkovich said.

The researchers inactivated fatty-acid synthase, an enzyme that generates new fat from carbohydrates, in the livers of mice. When fed a diet completely lacking fat, the mice developed low blood sugar and fatty liver. Both conditions were reversed when the researchers restored fat to the animals' diets.

"It is quite paradoxical," Semenkovich said. "When we inactivated fatty-acid synthase in the liver and eliminated fat in the diet, the animals became sick, with livers full of fat."

Further study found that, in the absence of new fat, the mice exhibited a marked decline in the activity of genes critical for the me
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Source:Cell Press


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