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"It's no secret that a high-fat diet isn't healthy."
Myth. Healthy for whom? "High-fat" meaning what? We're not off to a great start here, press release.
If you read the study (hooray for free full-text), you see that the researchers only defined the diet as being 60% fat (by kcal). They did not define whether they raised or lowered protein or carbohydrate intake (which is important), and they didn't define the ratios of the various lipids fed to the mice (which is even more important).
Why don't seem to understand that there no such thing as a singular "lipid", and they seem to treat the swap in other macronutrients as irrelevant.
Sad, really: they had the chance, with those hybrid specimens, to discover something really useful about the effects of different lipid ratios in the diet. Instead they're just promulgating a preconceived notion with STILL no basis in evidence.
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