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Nutritional research clearly demonstrates that a low fat diet is dangerously high in carbohydrates and sugar leading to metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, heart disease and brain aging.

Serine (phosphatidylserine) is a naturally occurring orthomolecular compound found naturally in the brain to help maintain memory function and to assist the replacement of damaged neurons (neuroplasticity). The critical communication between neurons in the brain is dependent on a steady supply of nutrients such as serine to enhance learning skills and the formation of new memories.

I would have a hard time putting stock into any site that would make the statement about "dangerous levels of carbohydrates."
That tells me enough to move on to a better source of information.
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The Internet is a dangerous place. It's full of resources, both good and bad; full of citations linking one to another, sometimes helpfully, sometimes not.

1. Natural News

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When Natural News began, it was basically the blog and sales portal of anti-pharmaceutical activist Mike Adams. His basic premise has always been the Big Pharma conspiracy, the idea that the medical industry secretly wants to keep everyone sick, and conspires with the food industry to make people unhealthy, all driven by a massive plot of greed to sell poisonous medicines. Adams appears to have become a protégé of Alex Jones, for he now writes on Natural News at least as many police state conspiracy articles as he does anti-science based medicine articles. They carry ads for each other on their sites as well.

Natural News' misleading title — I see very little on the site that I would think to classify as "natural news" — and pretense of being a health resource has helped it to become an often cited and heavily read site. For its frighteningly large influence, and abysmal quality of information, it earns the #1 spot on this list.

I hear this same comment from my wife time and time again as I am trying to move my son to a McD lifestyle, but am having a bit of difficulty. Not sure what sort of issues there are with brain function or development. I do feel as if I have a better attention span at work now, may or may not be related to a change in diet.

A high-fat diet may rapidly injure brain cells that control body weight

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What is an "essential source of cholesterol and saturated fats"? There is no essential source of cholesterol other than the human body. We need literally NO dietary cholesterol or saturated fat. There are fats that we do need to consume in the diet--the ones called "essential fatty acids," the Omega-3 and Omega-6. Do you have ANY science indicating that we also need cholesterol and saturated fats? If we did, would they not also be considered "essential fatty acids"? If not, why not? Because we can synthesize all we need of them, they are not essential, and we do not need to take any in dietarily.

You say that "Nutritional research clearly demonstrates that a low fat diet is dangerously high in carbohydrates and sugar leading to metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, heart disease and brain aging." You have three references cited at the bottom of your article; none of them says anything about this. What nutritional research CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES that a low-fat diet is dangerously high in carbohydrates and sugar? (You know that sugar IS a carbohydrate, right? And that not all carbohydrates are simple sugar, right?) Nutritional research clearly demonstrates that a low-carbohydrate diet is dangerously high in fat, cholesterol, and protein. THAT is inarguable.