Posted by larryhoover on December 27, 2012, at 22:48:31
In reply to Re: Bifidobacteria reduce depression » larryhoover, posted by Trotter on December 27, 2012, at 20:31:10
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you are only interested in trials with humans which have involved very high fat and very low carb diets. I don't think you will find many of those.
It occurs to me that we have struggled with the parameters of our definitions, which also limits the parameters of understanding.
A low-fat diet almost certainly involves a high-carb component, as it is unlikely that the remainder of the caloric intake would be supplied by protein.
Your original post referred to a high-fat diet, specifically. A high-fat diet may or may not be associated with high-carbs, and the distinction is crucial. Unless a diet plan specifically defines the carb content, we cannot know if the remainder of calories are dominantly supplied by carb or by protein. My posts have been focussed on elucidating the difference between these two cases.
However, when a low-carb diet is defined, it almost certainly simultaneously defines a high-fat diet, as it is unlikely that a low-carb diet will find the bulk of the energy calories supplied by protein. It is not hard to find high-fat diet studies, when one uses search parameters limited by "low carbohydrate diet".
PubMedCentral, the full-text site associated with PubMed, yields over 20,000 hits using those keywords. For some reason, PubMed gives fewer, but there is ample opportunity to mine PMC. The beauty of PMC is the reference lists themselves, which allow you to search tangential points from each full-text paper.
Lar
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