A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can feed intestinal tumours (www.nature.com)

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A ketogenic diet promotes tumour growth in the small intestine in susceptible mice. In people, diet advice might need to be tailored to individual cancer risks.

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[-] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

So these mice were on a high carb diet with exogenous ketones? 6% energy from fat isn't ketogenic

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 4 days ago

6% from soybean oil, total energy from fat was about 80%, except they didn't count fibre in the diet as carbohydrates... if you do that its a 15% carb diet.