Dietary "meats" and serum lipids.
The mean values for serum total cholesterol for 47 males, aged 32 to 62 yr who, over a 10 1/2 month study ate, within a self-selected diet, beef as the only meat for 3 months, poultry and fish for 3 months, and pork for 3 months showed no statistically significant difference, whereas 17 of 29 females of the same age who participated in the same study had borderline statistically significant differences in mean values (p less than 0.055). When data from all subjects were considered together, no statistically significant changes in mean serum total cholesterol or serum triglycerides were noted, but there were significant changes in mean high-density lipoprotein cholesterol values, both upward and downward. The important results of this study are documentary to the lack of influence of "meat" and its fat on effecting a significant change in serum total cholesterol within a self-selected diet.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001793:Blood Preservation; D002417:Cattle; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat; D008875:Middle Aged; D011200:Poultry; D012737:Sex Factors; D013552:Swine; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood*
D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL; D014280:Triglycerides; D002784:Cholesterol