Abstract
It has been hypothesized that dietary fat may affect natural killer (NK) cell activity, a factor of potential importance in early tumor surveillance. Fourteen men successfully completed an intervention trial designed to test the effect of dietary fat on NK activity in humans. Study subjects lowered their fat intake to an average of 22% of calories as fat and consumed two dietary supplements (of coconut and safflower oils), in a cross-over design. These supplements resulted in large changes in the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids (1.73 to 0.34 on average). Results of a general linear model in which we fitted covariates on exercise, body mass, intervention sequence, and various dietary predictors revealed a significant effect of decreased total dietary fat intake on increased NK activity at an E/T ratio of 100:1 (about 0.79% increase for each absolute percent of calories as fat, P = 0.04). Similar results were obtained at E/T ratios of 50:1 and 25:1. No other nutritional predictor was significantly associated with NK activity at any E/T ratio.
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