Auburn's Boshell Diabetes Research Day

To me the research day's most interesting presentation was a very simple experiment done by Auburn's Michael W. Greene.  He fed mice either low fat or high fat diets containing a mix of fats (33% lard, 33% butterfat, 33% Crisco) typical of the American diet.  These groups were subdivided and half were also given water containing sucrose and fructose comparable to drinking soda pop.  Can you guess which ones started having liver damage and obesity?

After two weeks the mice on both high fat and high sugar had problems, but after 12 weeks the mice on high fat with plain water also had problems.

During the question and answer section he said that the type of fat has everything to do with the outcome.

My take on it all, is that you should eat healthy fats as much as our conscious dictates but limit the Crisco, butterfat and probably the lard as well.