It's corn oil Let me see if I can get the full text from my university.

ETA: Got it. Email me if you need the full text PDF.

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Reading it, I felt like the writer had good intentions, but the article is written unintentionally in a way that's open to misinterpretation. Or possibly the language is rooted in some misconceptions that the writer has about the SAD. For instance, I came away feeling that the study may indicate that endocannabinoid receptors may be an evolutionary adaptation that helped early humans be more sensitive to fat-containing foods; as it was more scarce, perhaps it was good for humans to gorge on it when they had the opportunity. In today's world, the receptors may be sending similar signals -- but because we live in an environment where there are no natural limitations on fat availability, over-consumption becomes a problem, because there's always more than enough at our fingertips, and we need to "manually" override the receptors.

But I didn't like this:

Blockquote The findings suggest it might be possible to curb this tendency by obstructing endocannabinoid activity -- for example, by using drugs that "clog" cannabinoid receptors.

Suddenly, we're again jumping to design a pharmaceutical solution to a cultural issue -- in essence, blaming the cannabinoid receptors for doing what evolution intended them to! Why not just exercise more sanity and self-discipline, with regard to fat consumption? Why not educate parents and children about good fats vs bad fats, and the difference between consuming to support health vs weight gain?

I don't think that there is anything fishy going on in the article; in fact, its findings fit pretty nicely with standard paleo views of fat. For starters, we know that fat, like carbohydrate and glutamate, produces food reward. That's why we love and crave our favorite fatty foods. These researchers are trying to locate the precise mechanisms that underly the process of coupling fat intake and food reward signalling, and it looks like they've done a fine job of locating one, using a pretty clever research design.

That said, as paleos we'd probably like to know if the gut responds differentially to different types of fat. Further, the study is done on rats, so its results might not generalize to humans. And the sham-feeding protocol sets up an artificial situation where the intake of fat is simulated, but not the ingestion of fat, which we can assume has its own unique affects on reward pathways. Finally, their research, like most, is geared toward producing an obesity drug that can affect these pathways. Obviously we paleos object to this because we know that dietary interventions are more effective, cheaper, and have no side effects. But there is no money to be made in studying dietary interventions, and hence fewer resources for researchers.

I must admit, though, that it would be pretty cool if obese non-paleos could take drugs that manipulate their food reward pathways and make them feel satiated more easily. We don't have to support the research in general and its motivation in order to recognize that :)

Alcoholism as a disease depends upon a similarly-evolved metabolic pathway. Paleolithic man could not brew alcohol, but craved it in rotting fruit. Modern man brews alcohol so can over-consume & becomes addicted if possessing genes that metabolize alcohol into a cousin of formaldehyde. Gorillas also have similar "alcoholic" metabolic pathways in their populations, and it is the "alcoholics" among them that initiate over-ripe fruit-finding missions, but they cannot physically consume enough over-ripe fruit to be unhealthful alcoholics.

I couldn't get to the main article to see what the define as "fats". Usually in these studies, the fats are high N-6 seed oils, not actual saturated fat. I don't know if that's going on here, but if anyone posts a link to the actual article, that'd be helpful.

i read a article. it was on ketogenic diet and epeleptic disease. And this helps much more than medication. And now it gets popular swap over from the Us to germany. Parents are afraid cause people eat so much fat. It helps that people stop having epileptic attacks. Whatever they looked at us people who are on ketogenic diet than small age caused by epeleptic disease and found they arent obese.

The article seems to ignore the role of oleylethanolamide (OEA), which has exactly the opposite effect of endocannabinoids. It appears fat intake can stimulate the production of OEA or endocannabinoids. OEA causes lypolysis (burning of fat into ketone bodies and fatty acids).