Effects of Low-fat Diets

Very low-fat diets reduce milk and fat yields (Maynard and McCay, 1929 Banks et al., 1976) and greatly reduce the proportions and yields of the Ci 8 fatty acids, with the proportions of Ci6 o approaching 50% of the total fat yield (Virtanen, 1966 Banks et al., 1976). 

Increasing the Ci8 content of low-fat diets resulted in a linear increase of Ci8 fatty acids in the milk fat  

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Immunological effects of low-fat diets with and without weight loss. J. Am. Coll. Nutr. 22, 174-182. Schmidt, E.B., Pedersen, J.O., Vanning, K., Ernst, E., Jersild, C., Grunnet, N., and Dyerberg, J. 1991. n-3 fatty acids and leukocyte chemotaxis. Effects in hyperlipidemia and dose-response studies in healthy men. Arterioscler. Thromb. 11, 429-435. 

Coagulation Results of studies on the effects of low-fat diets compared with high-fat diets provide some insight into the effects of decreasing the saturated fat content of diets. However, in these studies multiple changes are introduced which makes interpretation of results difficult. 

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