It would be quite surprising. I concur with @elsewhen that the people funding this research must have been quite pleasantly surprised: "This work was funded by

It would be quite surprising. I concur with @elsewhen that the people funding this research must have been quite pleasantly surprised: "This work was funded by a grant from Dairy Research Institute, The Beef Checkoff, the Egg Nutrition Center, and the Robert C. And Veronica Atkins Foundation." I've been reading through it on http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0113605 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... and I don't understand several things: * Which SFAs (Saturated Fatty Acids) have been gone up in plasma by a carbohydrate diet? Only palmitoleic acid, or also other ones? And what's the percentage of these acids compared to all SFAs? * If you only check people with metabolic syndrome are the results not typical of a metabolism which is screwed up? Don't you at least wanna know what it does in healthy people? * If there is momentarily plasma palmitoleic acid response on dietary intake of carbohydrates, are those SFAs there so the body can get rid of them? What's the mechanism here? If you want to loose fat, it will need to go through the plasma at some time...