It’s eating fat that makes you fat, new mouse study suggests
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I quit. Don't make me look at these articles unless there's at least an N>10 meta-study.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...
I'm not sure if these issues are with the methodology in the studies, special interests wanting certain results, or just poor execution. But it seems out of hand.
Small off topic rant. If we want the masses to believe the results from sciences, then we need to be consistent. I'm not advocating lying in order to do this. The results from the studies need to be reproducible and accurate. How can we convince people that something like climate change is happening and real, when the earth is a massively complex system, when we can't even go 2 months without flipping dietary results from sugar is ok, to sugar is bad, back to sugar is ok. Or the other example would be the no amount of alcohol is good for you, when for years the common result from studies was 1 or 2 drinks was a benefit.
A handful of studies that find different results to a majority of studies to date do not "disprove" the majority results. Not even if that handful of studies is more recent. Especially if those more recent studies are few among many, also recent, that confirm the "science of the fifites".
I understand it's hard to know who to trust, like one of the responding comments says but here's a rule-of-thumb: don't listen to your gut, listen to the majority opinion of the experts.
... because "your gut" will typically be strongly biased towards discounting evidence you don't like (e.g. because it tells you not to eat the things you crave in large quntities).
"Dietary fat, but not protein or carbohydrate, regulates energy intake and causes adiposity in mice."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...
Meanwhile, aside from the growing volume of supporting studied, anyone who has tried a low-sugar high-fat diet knows that eating fat makes you want to eat less, and not more.
From what I can tell is these are recent scientists conducting a study in Beijing with potentially disconfirming evidence of your claim.
I had excellent results with this. No tricks, just count the calories (write down everything you eat) and stop when you hit your daily budget, whether it is a day full of ice cream or steak. Each time I weighed myself wasn't totally predictable as some weeks I'd lose very little and some weeks I'd lose more, but over the 6 months I made it a goal it was very effective.
Realistically, everyone who is overweight just needs to stop eating so much, and change what it is they eat.
Without anything else like manifest diabetes or heart disease or whatever, anyone who is packing too much weight can just limit their portions, reduce sugar intake, drink more water, and get 30 minutes of activity a day.
The greater your portion (calorie) limitation, sugar reduction, water intake, and activity, the more weight you will lose/faster you'll lose it.
Stuff like eating more veggies and fruit, and learning to cook and not eat processed bullshit is just icing on the cake.
> With up to around 50%-60% fat in the diet, the mice ate more food and put on more weight. However, at higher levels of fat they gained less weight. A mouse eating 80% fat in its diet increased in weight by about the same amount as one eating 30% fat. We don’t know exactly why, only that on these super high-fat diets the mice consumed fewer calories and didn’t gain as much weight.