High fat diets - anyone else do them?

[oldbanger]

Yipper said:

The brain gets carb-shortage, which leads to brain fog and can accelerate dementia.

Alzheimer's could be caused by excess sugar: new study finds 'molecular link'
Abnormally high blood sugar levels, or hyperglycaemia, is a well-known characteristic of diabetes and obesity, and it is already understood that diabetes patients have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's, where abnormal proteins aggregate to form plaque and tangles in the brain.
Now, however, scientists have unravelled the specific molecular link between glucose and Alzheimer's disease, suggesting people who consumer a lot of sugar but are not diabetic are at increased risk.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/23/alzh...
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep42874

edited to add - the mechanism for how high blood sugar is likely to cause atherosclerosis has also recently been found - many previous studies have found a correlation between high insulin/blood sugar and atherosclerosis
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/1702...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/1702...

Edited by oldbanger on Wednesday 1st March 13:01

[Shinobi]

Possibly the answer for Gout also

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/316111.ph...

[oldbanger]

Shinobi said:

Possibly the answer for Gout also

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/316111.ph...

That's interesting as high fructose consumption also correlates with gout
e.g. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/10/e013191.full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC45787...