{"id":199052,"date":"2015-08-13T13:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=199052"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:53:02","slug":"another-source-of-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/another-source-of-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Another source of obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_193561\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193561\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tecnociencia_0032-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Soybean oil: possible cause of weight gain in an experiment with laboratory animals\" width=\"290\" height=\"194\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Eduardo Cesar<\/span>Soybean oil: possible cause of weight gain in an experiment with laboratory animals<span class=\"media-credits\">Eduardo Cesar<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Doctors already had a low opinion of soybean oil.\u00a0 Its reputation may now have suffered a further blow.\u00a0 A diet rich in soybean oil may cause more obesity and diabetes than a diet rich in fructose, a type of sugar commonly found in soft drinks and processed foods, according to a study conducted at the University of California, Riverside, in the United States (<em><i>PLOS ONE<\/i><\/em>, July 22, 2015).\u00a0The researchers came to this conclusion after feeding four groups of mice different types of diets, each one containing 40% fat, similarly to the typical American diet.\u00a0 The first group of mice consumed only coconut oil, which consists essentially of saturated fats.\u00a0The second group was fed soybean oil, which contains mainly polyunsaturated fats \u2013 and is also widely consumed in Brazil.\u00a0 To the other two diets, each containing one of these oils, fructose was added in the proportion typically consumed by Americans.\u00a0 All four diets had the same total number of calories.\u00a0 The mice that ate soybean oil gained 25% and 9% more weight than those who were fed coconut oil or fructose-enriched diets, respectively.\u00a0 The soybean oil group also exhibited localized fat deposits and signs of liver damage, diabetes, and insulin resistance.\u00a0The researchers also saw that the metabolic damage caused by fructose-enriched diets was less severe than that observed in the other groups.\u00a0 In an additional test, a diet rich in corn oil resulted in more weight gain than a diet based on coconut oil, but not as much as the gain caused by soybean oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diet rich in soybean oil may cause obesity and diabetes","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247,251],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-199052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}