Effect of Diets with Different Lipid's Sources On Serum and Brain Fatty Acids Profile: Experimental Model.

Background: The importance of diet in health is widely accepted and recognized. Diet lipid profile is important to prevent chronic diseases and improve the quality of an individual's life.

Objective: The objective of this report is to analyze the effect of different sources of dietary lipids with standard and high concentration on growing rats.

Dietary modulation of thymic enzymes.

Malnutrition is a complex syndrome caused by an inadequate intake of energy, protein, minerals and vitamins which affects the immune system. Nutritional imbalances, present in children with energy-protein malnutrition and infections, make defining the specific effects of each of them on the thymus difficult. For this reason, it is necessary to design an experimental model in animals that could define a single variable.

Effects of high-fat diets from different sources on serum and thymus lipid profile: study in an experimental model.

Background: A balanced diet is important to maintain an optimal health status and to prevent noncommunicable chronic diseases. The principal objective of this study was to analyze the effect of diets containing high fat levels from different sources, on serum and thymus lipid profile, in adult rats.

Methods: Experimental diets contained 50% kcal of fat, provided by butter (B) or sunflower oil (S); control diet (C) was isocaloric, with 15 kcal of fat per 100 total kcal, provided by soy oil.