The Claim
Consuming a high animal fat diet (approximately 152 grams per day) significantly increases total fecal bile acid excretion to approximately 320 milligrams per day compared to a low animal fat diet (approximately 62 grams per day) in healthy young adults over a four-week period, a physiological change clinically relevant due to the theoretical promotion of large bowel cancer by elevated colonic bile acids.
What the research says
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Eating a lot of animal fat makes your body excrete much more bile acid into your stool. This matters because too much bile acid in the colon is thought to increase the risk of developing bowel cancer.
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Consuming a high animal fat diet (approximately 152 grams per day) compared to a low animal fat diet (approximately 62 grams per day) significantly increases total fecal bile acid excretion to approximately 320 milligrams per day, compared to approximately 140 milligrams per day, in healthy young adults over a four-week period, which is clinically relevant because elevated colonic bile acids are theorized to promote large bowel cancer development.
What the research says
1 studyEating a lot of animal fat makes your body excrete much more bile acid in your stool compared to eating less animal fat. This matters because high levels of bile acid in the colon are thought to increase the risk of bowel cancer.
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