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@ickihun
The thing that jumped out when I read the link was this paragraph:
In this study, the researchers fed mice a fast food-like diet rich in fat for four weeks, which is known to cause microglia to expand in number and to trigger local inflammation within the MBH. Mice fed such a diet also eat more food, burn fewer calories, and gain more weight compared to mice eating a more healthy, low-fat diet.
It highlights quite a few things to me
- the researchers were testing mice, not humans
- the mice were fed 'a fast food-like diet rich in fat for 4 weeks' and we all know that fast food is rich in carbs AND fat, don't we? Yet from that point on in the article, the diet is constantly referred to as 'rich in fat', not rich in 'carbs and fat'.
- there was a strong assumption that eating a low-fat diet is healthy
There is a lot there that I disagree with, but I don't know whether that is because the research was set up badly, or the person who wrote the article did so without understanding what they were saying, but from what I have just read I wouldn't compare my human body's reactions on a ketogenic diet to a lab mouse's reactions on a high fat, high carb 'fast food-like' diet. It is like comparing chalk and cheese. Or Stork margarine and organic grass fed butter. Or comparing Pop Tarts with home made low carb muffins, fresh homegrown strawberries and organic clotted cream...