Is fat bad for our guts? Let’s ask the bacteria…

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A new randomized study out of China is trying to tell us fat is bad for our microbiome, and the headlines came flowing. U.S. News: High fat diets do no favors for your gut bacteria NZ Herald: High fat diets hurt the helpful bugs within us Eurek Alert: High fat diet linked to unfavorable changes in gut bacteria and inflammatory triggers Should we believe it? No, not really. The study in question took 217 Chinese adults and randomized them into low-fat (20% of calories), moderate-fat (30%) and high-fat (40%) cohorts. Right away, red flags should be popping up in your brain. If the high-fat group is only eating 40% of their calories from fat, where are the rest of the calories coming from? 48% of the cohort’s calories came from carbohydrates. That hardly fits the criteria for a true “high-fat” diet. Haven’t we already learned that combined high-ish fat and high-carb diets tend to have the worst health effects? Adding fat to a system overwhelmed with high insulin from...
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