32 Hamsters were fed a hypercholesterolemic chow-based diet containing 10% by weight coconut oil for 2 weeks (control). After two weeks the animals were divided into groups and fed different dietary fats, group-1: 10% coconut oil, group-2: 10% crude emu oil, group-3: 10% physical refined emu oil and group-4: 10% olive oil. At four and six weeks the lipoprotein cholesterols were re-measured. The graph shows LDL results.

Ref:     Biological Activity of Emu Oil - Robert Nicolosi, Subbiah Yoganathan, Thomas Wilson, Hajime Sasaki, Frank Orthoefer

University of Massachusetts of Lowell, The Forsythe Institute,

University of Arkansas

Presented at the 2001 American Oil Chemist Society Conference