High fat diet displays health benefits in mice – The Johns Hopkins ...

There are money different diets out there to consider when you are attempting to lose a couple of pounds, but a new study from John Hopkins suggests that a high fat diet can actually help one more than hurt; as they’ve studied multiple times on mice and the findings were shocking. High fats, rather than high carbs can help you to live longer as it had with the mice, and the study proved to show that the diet works.

Key Takeaways:

The Bacon Diet is a diet consisting of high fat and low carbs that may help you lose weight, prevent illness, and be more energetic.
The Bacon Diet is a ketogenic diet meaning one’s body burns fat as an energy source instead of glucose.
Mice on the Bacon Diet performed better on mental and physical tests than the mice in other groups.

“One of the most promising inadvertent results of the study was the mice on the ketogenic diet had fewer tumors in their body upon death.”