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Saturated fats, sugar and metabolic health | Richard Johnson, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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What Is the Parry Study?

The Parry study compared a sugar diet that was 20% fat, 65% carbohydrate with a saturated fat, high fat diet. And they saw that the consumption of saturated fat in that at a condition of basically weight maintenance, saturated fat led to liver fat increasing by 39%. Whereas the sugar diet, the in the sugar diet,. the amount of liver fat was virtually unchanged. So it's a bit, it's striking to me that in a short trial, you can see saturated fat does increase liver fat, but you don't see. much change in body weight.

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