The British Journal of Nutrition in the January 2009 journal published a study that shows that dietary chia seeds.
This study is based on a rat model. Researchers wanted to see if Chai Seeds have an effect on dyslipidaemia ond insulin resistance.
Firstly researchers fed a group of rats a Sucrose Rich Diet (SRD). Insulin resitance was induced Diet and Type 2 Diabetes Research
To achieve these goals two experiments were designed.
1.To study the prevention of onset of dyslipidaemia (abnormaly high lipids or fat in the blood stream) and IR in rats fed during 3 weeks with a SRD in which chia seed was the dietary source of fat.
2.To analyse the effectiveness of chia seed in improving or reversing the metabolic abnormalities described above. Rats were fed a SRD during 3 months; by the end of this period, stable dyslipidaemia and IR were present in the animals.
Once the animals were on the sucrose rich diet for three months it was found that insulin resistance and dysplipidaemia were present in all of the animals. From months 3 – 5 one half of the group were continued on the SRD while the other group were fed SRD but their fat intake was substituted with chia seeds.
It was found that that in the group consuming chia the onset of dyslipidaemia and IR did not change, however in the following weeks dyslipidaemia and IR were normalised.
Click this link to read the study abstract in the British Journal of Nutrition
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