flatzfishinG90 t1_iwqbprs wrote
Reply to comment by poquito_kale in Just one day of a high-fat diet is all that it takes to cause stress in the gut, at least in mice. Within the first 24 hours of the changed diet, the animals’ metabolism altered to accommodate the new abundance of fatty acids, and cells lining the intestines began to proliferate at higher rates. by the_phet
Plainly, please. For those of us interested but not so well read. Am i to understand this as a high fat diet, while not ideal, is not the problem?
poquito_kale t1_iwspiun wrote
Welp, based on these data (or any available data) it's hard to make recommendations regarding what might be a problem on a societal level, and making those recommendations on an individual level is nearly impossible.
My take on this study however is that the authors intentionally made an extraordinarily exaggerated intervention and then measured short term effects.
That's the secret recipe for a huge effect in your study results.
What's not clear from this study is whether what the authors describe as stress of high fat (moderate carbohydrate, moderate protein) diet produces a permanent detrimental effect that will kill humans or make their lives more miserable faster and earlier than a low fat diet.
So, given that people have healthfully enjoyed many different macronutrient compositions throughout human history, I don't believe that their exaggerated-for-effect short term intervention in a non human species that canonically eats low fat is relevant to our lives.
Why didn't traditional indigenous Inuit suffer insurmountable barriers to reproductive success if this short term effect is relevant to humans?
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