{"id":199782,"date":"2025-12-24T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199782\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:46:07","slug":"lard-can-actually-keep-you-fit-and-feeling-more-comfortable-chinese-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199782\/","title":{"rendered":"Lard can actually keep you fit and feeling more comfortable, Chinese study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming a diet with a moderate amount of lard can decrease both fat accumulation and inflammation in body fat, according to a new study by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336725\/how-chinese-scientists-turn-annoying-allergy-powerful-weapon-against-cancer?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese scientists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese findings challenge the conventional view of animal fats and demonstrate that consuming lard at the recommended level (with dietary fat providing 25 per cent of energy) can confer metabolic benefits by regulating adipose tissue homeostasis,\u201d the team wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scientists from Hunan Agricultural University, the University of South China and the Changsha Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal npj Science of Food this month.<\/p>\n<p>In China, health researchers are facing a paradox with <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3333520\/global-public-action-needed-ultra-processed-foods-linked-obesity-and-cancer?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">health and fat intake<\/a>: obesity rates in the country have increased even though long-standing advice promotes the consumption of unsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in vegetable oils, over saturated fatty acids from animal fats like lard.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese national dietary guidelines recommend 25 to 30 grams of cooking oil per day for adults. It suggests limiting fatty meats and animal organs consumption because they are high in saturated fat and cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>The team also pointed to previous studies on diets based on pork and lard which indicated that people who consume them show a \u201csignificantly lower obesity and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3286211\/9-crucial-facts-about-diabetes-worrying-trends-and-how-avoid-it-diabesity?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">diabetes<\/a> prevalence\u201d than those who follow plant-based or vegetarian diets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consuming a diet with a moderate amount of lard can decrease both fat accumulation and inflammation in body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[122872,122868,122873,607,122871,3535,134,122875,13346,122870,122876,58765,111,139,122874,556,69,4368,44408,122869],"class_list":{"0":"post-199782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-adipose-tissue","9":"tag-animal-fats","10":"tag-changsha-agriculture-and-rural-affairs-bureau","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-national-dietary-guidelines","13":"tag-diabetes","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-hunan-agricultural-university","16":"tag-inflammation","17":"tag-lard","18":"tag-lipid-accumulation","19":"tag-mice","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-npj-science-of-food","23":"tag-nutrition","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-obesity","26":"tag-pork","27":"tag-university-of-south-china"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}