For decades, the public has been told to avoid foods high in saturated fats and cholesterol. A new study led by the National Marine Mammal Foundation (NMMF) and published in PLOS ONE today discovered a saturated fat, called heptadecanoic acid, that may help reverse prediabetes in humans.
NMMF research discovered that bottlenose dolphins can readily switch in and out of diabetes-like states, and that dolphins – including those in the wild – can develop metabolic syndrome, a subclinical condition called prediabetes in humans.
