Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20832799

According to the summary, feeding extra fat in the form of cocnut oil, with no increase in calories, has multiple bad outcomes. Is the study flawed in some way?

edited Feb 8 2012 at 15:42

asked Feb 8 2012 at 14:43

Brad
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can you please make this a question – The Loon Feb 8 2012 at 15:00

Here's a summary, a bit more readable – The Loon Feb 8 2012 at 15:12

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Where is the summary? – Brad Feb 8 2012 at 17:16

well, duh! I will go looking for it again. Yet, I guarantee you will be disappointed. – The Loon Feb 11 2012 at 16:52

greymouser · Answer 1 · 2012-02-08 15:01:57Z UTC

I'm not a scientist or doctor, but here's my critical take.

Rabbits, not humans
1. Needs human study to be meaningful
"HFD feeding induced marked metabolic disorders including increased plasma levels of free fatty acids"
1. This is almost certainly not what happens in humans. There is, however, a correlation in humans that eat excess carbohydrates and high triglyceride levels.
"To examine whether these disorders affected the development of atherosclerosis, two HFD groups were further fed with a diet containing 0.3% cholesterol for another 18 weeks. We found that 10%-HFD group showed a prominent accumulation of adipose tissue and developed 2-fold greater aortic atherosclerosis than 3%-HFD group."
1. AFAIK, rabbits are not omnivores or carnivores, only herbivores. Cholesterol is a sterol solely created by animals, and only found in food from animals. I'm surprised being fed cholesterol didn't screw up the rabbits even more than it did.
2. If there is some correlation to human diet, I'd want to take a critical look at what the rest of the "standard chow" they were fed was made of.

What a waste of food - we should be eating rabbits, not running diet experiments on them. ;-)

Kimmie · Answer 2 · 2012-02-08 21:06:12Z UTC

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There are tons of studies out there that prove saturated fat is extremely unhealthy... for rabbits. That's because rabbits are natural vegetarians and don't thrive on saturated fat.

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answered Feb 8 2012 at 16:31

Kimmie
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+1 If you feed an animal foods that aren't natural for their diet, of course they'll get sick (that's why corn fed cows have to be pumped full of drugs to keep them alive). The question should be: why did this study get approved for funding to begin with? It makes as much sense as doing a study to determine if feeding rabbits saturated fat increases their ability to ride a bicycle. – Talldog Feb 8 2012 at 19:05

The Loon · Answer 3 · 2012-02-08 14:59:55Z UTC

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If you are an actual rabbit, don't eat this stuff. Eat rabbit food instead.

answered Feb 8 2012 at 14:59

The Loon
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+1....aren't these just the silliest experiments in the world? I got this plant that I feed hot bacon grease...damn thing died....guess bacon grease is bad for us. – JayJay Feb 8 2012 at 16:42

Please hack this VCO study

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