This is all about the Paleo Mouse Study that proposed to show how giving mice an unlimited high fat diet will cause obesity.
So to really understand the paleo mouse study you have to go back to 2014 … and it starts with Climate Change
In 2014 Larry Marshall was appointed by the Abbott Government of Australia as the chief executive of the CSIRO (Australia’s peak government funded Science body - kind of like our NIH) to gut the organization of it’s climate change agenda (and roughly 350 jobs) and focus it on acting more like a silicon valley incubator of start ups that would turn to profitable research.
Every CSIRO department containing people who wanted to keep their jobs went on a frenzy of looking for studies that would offer a funding justification - help the governments bottom line and don’t focus on climate change “crap”.
In July 2015 one group resurrected a 2013 study done into low carb diets for T2DM management and recast it as a way to reduce MASSIVE costs (ie: to the Australian Government).
All of a sudden everyone in govt circles was talking about this study.
Well that study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, on the review board at that time, and specifically in this area of focus … was one Ass. Prof. Sof Adrikopolis a man who has staked his career on the hypothesis that increased insulin secretory demand on pancreatic islet cells with genetic susceptibility is the cause of diabetes … not this Carbohydrate insulin hypothesis thingy.
Within 7 months of that block-buster CSIRO study Prof Sof had published his 9 week study into feeding mice bred to over eat, an unlimited diet of what he characterized as a LCHF Paleo diet.
But when you drill into the study the top 3 ingredients were “Stearic Acid (Cacao butter) , casein (milk protein), and sucrose” … FFS that’s the recipe for white chocolate.
All you can eat white chocolate, fortified with essential vitamins and minerals.
Of course one might wonder who funds his research … and find out that it is companies who make products that would be helped if a dietary solution to type 2 diabetes were possible.
