low fat is probably better than high fat.

(Go Bryan, Gosia, et al.!)

In this study, 75% of normal rats fed a high AGEs (advanced glycation end products, i.e. cooked) 35% fat diet turned diabetic. Although the rats eating as much fat (35%), but not cooked, got just as fat, they didn't get diabetic. But the low fat (5%) eating rats did best of all.

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Diabetes. 2005 Aug;54(8):2314-9.

Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes in high-fat-fed mice are linked to high glycotoxin intake.

Sandu O, Song K, Cai W, Zheng F, Uribarri J, Vlassara H.

Division of Experimental Diabetes and Aging, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1640, New York, NY 10029. helen.vlassara@mssm.edu.

Dietary advanced glycosylation end products (AGEs) have been linked to insulin resistance in db/db((++)) mice. To test whether dietary AGEs play a role in the progression of insulin resistance in normal mice fed high-fat diets, normal C57/BL6 mice were randomly assigned to high-fat diets (35% g fat), either high (HAGE-HF group; 995.4 units/mg AGE) or low (by 2.4-fold LAGE-HF group; 329.6 units/mg AGE) in AGE content for 6 months. Age-matched C57/BL6 and db/db((++)) mice fed regular diet (5% g fat, 117.4 units/mg AGE) served as controls. After 6 months, 75% of HAGE-HF mice were diabetic and exhibited higher body weight (P < 0.001), fasting glucose (P < 0.001), insulin (P < 0.001), and serum AGEs (P < 0.01) than control mice, while none of the LAGE-HF mice were diabetic despite a similar rise in body weight and plasma lipids. The HAGE-HF group displayed markedly impaired glucose and insulin responses during glucose tolerance tests and euglycemic and hyperglycemic clamps and alt ered pancreatic islet structure and function compared with those of LAGE-HF mice, in which findings resembled those of control mice. The HAGE-HF group had more visceral fat (by two- and fourfold) and more AGE-modified fat (by two- and fivefold) than LAGE-HF and control mice, respectively. In the HAGE-HF group, plasma 8-isoprostane was higher (P < 0.01) and adiponectin lower (P < 0.001) than control mice, while in the LAGE-HF group, these were more modestly affected (P < 0.05). These results demonstrate that the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes during prolonged high-fat feeding are linked to the excess AGEs/advanced lipoxidation end products inherent in fatty diets.

PMID: 16046296 [PubMed - in process]