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Diacylglycerol oil supplements may be able to manage obesity in type 2 diabetics

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 27th, 2006

Type 2 diabetic patients may be able to manage obesity and lipid abnormalities with diacylglycerol oil supplements.

According to recent research from Japan, "Coronary arteriosclerotic heart disease frequently develops in patients with diabetes. Decreased serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size, accompanied by hypertriglyceridemia, are associated with the onset of atherosclerosis."

"We recently reported," recount K. Yamamoto and colleagues, Kao Corporation, "that hypertriglyceridemia was significantly improved in patients with type 2 diabetes who ingested diacylglycerol (DAG) oil. The...

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