Thank you very much for these posts - a whole another subject.
The trial is fascinating as is the whole subject.
CLA is "just" another form of linoleic acid, with the double bonds in different slots in the chain and different angles yet the effects are so different.
This is all the result of the chains simply being another shape. Mind boggoling complexity.
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/journal...c/absA302.html
It really emphaises the potential importance and subtly of the bodies utilisation of fats. It emphasis the potential power of trans fats.
Grass feed livestock has higher omega threes too.
I have only grazed this link I found more or less by accident. It is very thought provoking.
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a
Again thank you for that.
Serious food for thought when I have time.