Cholesterol Research Methodology

Many studies claiming that high-fat diets cause heart disease used designs that combined high fat with high carbohydrates simultaneously, completely confounding their results. Most epidemiological and dietary studies linking fat to heart disease used high-fat and high-carb conditions, rendering their conclusions about fat misleading. Metabolic damage observed in high-fat, high-carb study conditions was incorrectly attributed to dietary fat rather than to carbohydrates and elevated insulin. Studies that isolate high fat in the presence of low carbohydrates consistently show more favorable lipid and cardiovascular outcomes.