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Posted on: October 10, 2008 1:32 AM, by Razib KhanFatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats - such as avocados, nuts and olive oil - have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important message to your brain: stop eating, you're full.
The broad point is probably known to you, but read the whole press release, as there's more biochemical detail....
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Ron Rosedale has been saying this for years. Insulin and leptin resistance from eating too many carbohydrates make you fat - and hungry all the time.
Posted by: Tod | October 10, 2008 12:52 PM
For health reasons I have had to subsist on a very high-fat diet. Strangely, my cloresterol went down from 240 to around 170.
My feeling is that anything that tastes as good as fat can't be all bad.
Posted by: Luke Lea | October 10, 2008 11:07 PM
Nice to see nutrition science starting to come back to reality after a 30-year holiday.
Luke -- you're not the only one. High fat/low carb diets actually reduce the cholesterol:HDL fraction more than low fat/high carb ones:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/3/229
Posted by: Matt McIntosh | October 12, 2008 9:13 PM