New study says Paleo diet 'unhealthy and fattening' angering ardent devotees

The paleo diet could lead to rapid weight gain and increased susceptibility to diabetes, a new study has found, but the findings were attacked as “comic” by devotees of the caveman-style diet.

Warning the public to avoid “putting faith in so-called fad diets”, researchers at Melbourne University said the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet had been tested on mice for just eight weeks and found to cause weight gains of 15 per cent and health complications.

The latest study found that mice on the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet – which is said to assist people with diabetes – were left with greater glucose intolerance, higher insulin levels and an increase in fat mass from two per cent to almost four per cent.

But the findings were disregarded by fans of the diet, including celebrity chef Pete Evans, who is notorious for his claims about the virtues of paleo.

The chef, who has been criticised for releasing a cookbook which recommended feeding infants bone broth as baby formula, questioned the study’s testing of the paleo diet on mice.

“The media and also the health organisations are once again clutching at straws,” he wrote on Facebook.

“This time it is a study done on mice – yep you heard that right ... mice! You do have to ask the question ... who is funding this study, does this university or the professor have any ties with any pharmaceutical or multinational funding?"

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