Hello and welcome everyone to episode 371 of Sigmat Nutrition Radio.

My name is Danny Lennon.

I'm here with Alan Flanagan.

Alan, how are you?

I'm good.

I'm starting the new year with a new lockdown.

So 2021 is continuing, which is 2020 ended.

Yeah.

New year is a bit of a misnomer. It. It just feels like 2020's extended out for now.

Yeah. It's just an extension. Yeah.

So with that extra time, though, we have an opportunity to dive into another episode here of the podcast.

And obviously, we've discussed quite at length both on the podcast and in previous

Sigma statements, the role of diet with a particular focus on dietary fat and the different

types of dietary fat, how that influences blood lipids and cardiovascular disease. And for anyone

who hasn't caught either the three-part sigma statement

or our discussions related to that on the podcast, I'll link to all of that in the show notes

of the episode, which would provide a bit more context. But within this kind of larger conversation

of how diet influences number one, blood lipids and then cardiovascular disease the focus has very

much been around a few conclusions such as seeing that high saturated fat intake

elevates LDL cholesterol APO B LDL particle number etc which for the moment we'll

simplistically just say LDL that in turn then increases cardiovascular disease risk.

We had looked at some of the epidemiology showing that diets that are high in saturated fat

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