On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:25:10 -0800, Mary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>>WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) Feb 22 - The results of animal studies
>>suggest that a high-fat, carbohydrate-poor diet may impair brain function
>>over time, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
>>
>>Rats that were fed high-fat diets were slower in learning new tasks
>>compared with rats fed a standard diet, investigators report in the March
>>issue of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. The high-fat diet animals
>>also performed more poorly on tests of learning and memory.
>
>What KIND of fats????????

This is a great example of why the scientific method ultimately does not work.

Why?

Because "review" is done subjectively.

If the assumptions of every "peer" reading the study is the same as every other
"peer", then no one is likely to notice that there is no real "controls" in the
study - meaning no control groups eating the same amount of fat, but different
kinds (polyunsaturated, mononunsaturated, saturated and trans).

Then, due to this subjective review, it becomes "conventional wisdom" that 
"a high-fat diet is bad for you".

PS  This is aside from the constant and ignored undercurrent that rats and mice
have entirely different nutritional requirements from humans....


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Cheers,

Ken
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