When a headline blames a high-fat diet for health problems, check the original study's methods section. Most animal studies labeled high-fat actually include high carbs and sucrose too. Search the diet code to see what was really tested.
Here's a 20-second tip that will save you hours of being misled about high-fat diets. When you see a headline saying "high-fat diet does X bad thing," click on the paper, scroll to the methods section, and more than 9 times out of 10, the "high-fat diet" is actually a high-fat, high-carb diet usually fed to animals. There's often a diet code like this one here that you can copy and paste into a Google search to see exactly the composition of the diet. In this case, loaded with sucrose, extra carbohydrate, soybean oil, and lard. So the next time you see high-fat diet equals bad outcome on a headline or a post, apply this tip, see how it works. I think you'll be surprised.
