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> High fat diets are not proven to be detrimental to your health,

Do you believe this yourself?

Also, not to nitpick, but science does not "prove", it establishes plausible models for observed facts. There is no end to studies linking poor diet to poor health.

I'm skeptical about making broad assumptions about human applicability in this study, too, but that hardly makes it flagworthy. They've identified specific chemical pathways as a metric for concern; let's see if human effects are parallel.

And I'm a longtime low-carber with as much as 15 continuous months on a KD, so I'm not a KD skeptic.

Being overweight has been shown to cause insulin resistance, which is what they were comparing.