date:Sep 21, 2012
y resulted in a cholesterol reduction of around 9%, exerts beneficial effects upon other lipid variables, and had been described as anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer compounds.
Yet like all unsaturated lipids, phytosterols were liable to oxidation, Alemany-Costa and colleagues noted, giving rise to phytosterol oxidation products (POPs), compounds known to be implicated in the initiation and progression of major chronic diseases.
Biological effects unclear
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