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Study Title:

Adding more fat to a high-fat diet only exacerbates hepatic insulin resistance.

Study Abstract

Non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the many clinical consequences of obesity and increases one's risk of developing diabetes ∼5‐fold, and is present in up to ∼2/3 of those with type 2 diabetes (Hazlehurst et al. 2016). The current obesity epidemic necessitates an urgent need to find effective and accessible weight loss interventions. Recently, the ‘ketogenic’ diet (KD), which is the consumption of a high‐fat and low carbohydrate diet (Jornayvaz et al. 2010; Roberts et al. 2017; Grandl et al. 2018), has produced weight loss and improved some markers of metabolic dysregulation in humans and rodents (Foster et al. 2003; Roberts et al. 2017).