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The problem with this is epidemiological. As people move from traditional high-carb (=low cost) diets to fat and protein rich western-style diets, obesity and d

• dogma1138 8y ago
  It really depends on sugar and insulin levels, high insulin is the culprit here, primarily due to an increase in high sugar intake combined with increase in fat and or protein. Also there are many other factors like the move towards more western diets often also includes a less active lifestyle to to moving towards more modern "working/middle-class" type of jobs. If you eat nothing than rice and some fish from time to time and work in the field all day ofc you won't have problems, if you are loading on fat and sugar or even sugar alone you will. However fat on it's own does not make you fat on it's own, and with the diet available to most people in the west today reducing their carb intake to 30% or less will do wonders, I'm not advocating for everyone to be on a 20g carbs a day ketogenic diet but obesity is not tied to fat at all. Don't forget that we have had populations that do not eat carbs or eat very little carbs, inuits, Chukcha etc. traditionally ate little to no carbs as carbs were rarely available, essentially all the population close to the arctic primarily consumes fat and protein and they also doing just fine.