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Dietary Fat

Dietary fat is one of the three principal macronutrients in the human diet, supplying a concentrated source of energy, providing essential fatty acids, and enabling the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. Fats differ in type, including saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, and trans fats, and the kind and amo…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 28× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Dietary fat is one of the three principal macronutrients in the human diet, supplying a concentrated source of energy, providing essential fatty acids, and enabling the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. Fats differ in type, including saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, and trans fats, and the kind and amount consumed can influence health in different ways. Research on dietary fat examines its relationship to body weight, metabolic health, cardiovascular risk, and other chronic conditions, as well as its role within overall eating patterns rather than in isolation. Articles in this journal consider dietary fat across metabolic and clinical contexts. Studies include high-fat dietary approaches in relation to fat loss and brain health, the acute effects of a high-fat meal on postprandial lipid and glucose responses with mushroom-powder supplementation, and culturally tailored nutrition and lifestyle interventions to reduce cardio-metabolic risk. Other contributions examine dietary fish oil in experimental tumor models, dietary and lifestyle factors in colorectal cancer, and broader work on obesity, the Mediterranean diet, microbiota, and probiotic foods. Together these works situate dietary fat within nutrition science, metabolism, cardiovascular and cancer research, and the study of whole dietary patterns.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 28 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Kadri Koppel · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Luigia Pazzagli · Italy

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