"...High fat diets, particularly in combination with refined starches and sugars, were among the most effective. The composition of these diets has been refined since then, and modern "purified" high-fat diets reliably induce obesity in susceptible strains of rodents. The most commonly used diet is Research Diets D12492, which is 60% fat by calories, and composed mostly of lard, soybean oil, casein, maltodextrin, sucrose and cellulose (7). It tastes kind of like raw cookie dough, and the rats are crazy about it."Turns out a whole big chunk of science has been drawing faulty conclusions:
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Stephan may not be that concerned with omega 6s in the diet, but once I learned that there's a potential path from dietary LA to anandamide for those with metabolic syndrome (ref the endocannabinoid system), I've thought that there's certainly a potential smoking gun as far as appetite dysregulation goes. Anandamide is (more or less) endogenous THC!
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