A new study conducted to test the effects of diets enriched with cottonseed oil and olive oil on lipid profiles found that a high-fat diet enriched with cottonseed oil drastically improved cholesterol profiles in young adult men. There were significant reductions in cholesterol and triglycerides in the cottonseed oil trial compared to minimal changes on the olive oil-enriched diet. The results appear in the journal Nutrition Research. The participants in the study showed an average decrease of 8 per cent in total cholesterol on the cottonseed oil diet along with a 15 per cent decrease in low-density lipoprotein or LDL
