Before I get to Is the metabolic syndrome caused by a high fructose, and relatively low fat, low cholesterol diet? I thought I'd share a bit about the lead author Stephanie Seneff. I don't usually look much into the authors of papers and such unless something seems off in the bias/advocacy/etc. area. Seneff did in this case. Although Seneff has a biology background, she hasn't been working in that field so I thought it odd that the first author on such a paper was a PhD in Electrical Engineering. The second author is described as an independent reader of research, which I suppose would be like me?!, and the third an Italian doctor. An interesting mix!
One gets a little insight on Seneff when you read her blog a bit. Clearly her interests lie in gestational and early childhood development area, but I'm also picking up on a feminist angle advocating for acceptance of more body fat on women and not the hyper-lean, model-thin bodies that became more socially accepted in the 70's. I can't disagree there, but there's a huge disconnect. No doubt there are some women so concerned over their pencil-thin figures who may have irreparably harmed their unborn children eating a too-low fat diet and such. However I do not get how this translates to the population as a whole and how this leads to Metabolic Syndrome, etc. Especially since those women aren't the ones presenting with MetSyn. I can't get over the reality that on the whole it is Americans who are not following governmental advice and eating "healthy diets" that present left and right with MetSyn.
