Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health: 5 (The Dr. Hyman Library)

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The study doesn’t support his claim: it was a small trial and in fact it showed no difference in weight, but only a change in waist circumference. He also told me that to get any benefit from fish oil supplements, I'd have to take so many that I'd actually smell like a bucket of fish.

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Hyman has worked with President Clinton, presenting at the Clinton Foundation's Health Matters, Achieving Wellness in Every Generation conference, and the Clinton Global Initiative, as well as with the World Economic Forum on global health issues. They found that 2 diets, low-fat diets and the Mediterranean diet, showed greater improvements in LDL cholesterol when compared to low-carb diets.In a randomized, double-blind trial comparing the effects of coconut oil and polyunsaturated vegetable (soybean) oil in women with abdominal obesity, women who consumed coconut oil had a significant reduction in waist circumference (with no change in cholesterol levels). The book also cites a review paper that summarizes the evidence for the relationship between dietary factors and prostate cancer.

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Eat Fat, Get Thin only recommended reintroducing these foods if the reader has lost their ideal amount of weight and/or if they successfully reversed their health concerns. He says, “A hundred years ago less than one in one hundred Americans were obese and coronary heart disease was unknown. While the results of the study do support the weight loss claim we do note that the mice on the low-carb diet lost their weight from the nonfat component of their weight, likely water weight.Cardiologists have become more liberal about allowing some cholesterol and fat in the diet, but they still consider fat intake as part of the complex equation of risk factors.

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It would appear, based on the bulk of the scientific literature, that there is no meaningful long-term difference in weight loss between low-fat and low-carb diets. This transplant led to an alteration of the gut bacteria of some of the recipients but not all of them.The book’s references received a score of 0, indicating that they generally undermine the book’s claim.