A diet that requires users to consume saturated fat is now being told that doubling the amount of the said fat does not increase such substance in one's blood, according to a recent study regarding controlled diet.

However, it has been revealed that increasing carbohydrates intake increases the amount of fatty acid I one's blood and it is linked to a higher risk of a person developing diabetes and heart disease. The study has been published in the November 21, 2014 issue of the journal PLOS ONE.

The study is said to be aimed towards letting people know that the saturated fat is not at all the cause of the above-mentioned diseases. Jeff Volek, the senior author of the study and a professor at The Ohio State University pressed that most people who doubled their saturated fat intake decreased the substance in their blood.

The other authors of the study also pressed that the Palmitoleic acid, a fatty acid related to unhealthy metabolism including carbohydrates, also decreased in one's blood when the car-intake was decreased.

The study reportedly fed the participants with six diets for three weeks that subsequently increased carbs and reduced the saturated fat but kept the calories and protein at the same amount.

Volek also added that dieters consuming very low carbs would let their body burn the saturated fat instead of the fat that should be burnt.

In the study, there were 16 adults recruited and they all had a metabolic syndrome, which meant they had at least three to five factors that increased the risk of them suffering from heart diseases and diabetes. These factors are as follows: excess belly fat, low cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, high triglycerides, and insulin resistance or glucose intolerance.

The diets started with 47grams of carbs plus 84 grams of fat for the first week and ended with 346 grams of carbs plus 32 grams of daily saturated fat.

After the diet, there were significant improvements reported regarding blood glucose, insulin, and blood pressure. The participants, most of them, lost 22 pounds by the end of the said time they were put under the diet.

Volek pressed, "People believe 'you are what you eat,' but in reality, you are what you save from what you eat. The point is you don't necessarily save the saturated fat that you eat. And the primary regulator of what you save in terms of fat is the carbohydrate in your diet. Since more than half of Americans show some signs of carb intolerance, it makes more sense to focus on carb restriction than fat restriction."