Dietary Fatty Acid Composition and Obesity-related Metabolic Abnormalities

Subjects will adhere to their specific diet for four weeks. For both diet treatments, the diet will be a weight-maintaining diet, and the target nutrient composition for diets will be 55% carbohydrate, 30% fat, 15% protein. For the monounsaturated fat treatment (M diet) approximately 10% of all lipids ingested will be saturated. For the saturated fat treatment (S diet) approximately 40% of all lipids ingested will be saturated.