Adopting High Fat Diets for Fat Loss and Improving Brain Health.

Fat Quality Influences the Obesogenic Effect of High Fat Diets

High fat and/or carbohydrate intake are associated with an elevated risk for obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The harmful effects of a high fat diet could be different, depending on dietary fat quality. In fact, high fat diets rich in unsaturated fatty acids are considered less deleterious for human health than those rich in saturated fat. In our previo...

Diets for Fat Sets

Prescribing low-fat diets: useless for long-term weight loss?

What diet is best for weight loss? This question has been hotly debated for decades, and answering it correctly is becoming increasingly important in view of the rising prevalence of obesity worldwide. Previous recommendations to consume low-fat diets might have been ill advised, especially if dietary fat is replaced by refi ned carbohydrates. In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Deirdre Tob...

High-fat diets: healthy or unhealthy?

In the current dietary recommendations for the treatment and prevention of Type 2 diabetes and its related complications, there is flexibility in the proportion of energy derived from monounsaturated fat and carbohydrate as a replacement for saturated fat. Over the last few years, several population studies have shown that subjects eating a lot of refined grains and processed foods have a much ...

Growth on Diets High in Carbohydrate and High in Fat

The phenomenon of growth is a function of at least two factors. First, there is what might be called the heredity factor, the growth impulse, which is characteristic for each species. In the usual conception of growth this element may be considered to be structural in nature for it probably resides in and is transmitted through certain cellular elements. The second determinant of growth may be ...