89 - Traditional Diets and Indigenous Australians

Question 1

Typical area where aborigines deposit body fat

Answer 1

Centrally (intraabdominal fat), which carries the greatest risk of insulin-resistance

Question 2

Fats in which traditional diet is particularly rich

Answer 2

Polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acids (particularly HDA)

Question 3

Effect of 8 weeks of hunter-gatherer lifestyle on T2DM

Answer 3

After one week, fasting plasma glucose normalised, stayed down
Liver fat fell to normal levels after 8 weeks
Pancreas fat normalised after 8 weeks