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So I was interested whether the high fat diet (HFD) was a low carb diet or a high carb diet. The paper lists carbs for the low fat diet but not the high fat die
by SubiculumCode 4y ago
So I was interested whether the high fat diet (HFD) was a low carb diet or a high carb diet. The paper lists carbs for the low fat diet but not the high fat diet.
In the paper the HFD is said to be SF04-001 High Fat Rodent Diet by Specialty Feeds, data sheet here (https://www.specialtyfeeds.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sf04-001.pdf https://www.specialtyfeeds.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...). The data sheet also does not list the carbs, which I found strange. So I looked at the ingredients list: Here are the top three by weight: Casein (Acid) 233 g/Kg; Sucrose 201 g/Kg Lard 207 g/Kg.
Sucrose (aka table sugar) definitely has carbs. Sugar is about 1 carb per 1 gram sugar, and each carb is about 4 kcalories. So about 800 kcal per kilogram from sugar. Lard has about 9 kcals per gram. I may be wrong, but this surely does not reflect a high fat low carb diet.
I'm not an expert in this field, but I think its likely that the body wants to be either carnivore highfat low carb mode, or a herbivore low fat medium to high carb mode, and the omnivore flexibility comes at a cost to long term health.