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Ketogenic diets may increase cancer risk in the small intestine (news.mit.edu)
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[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Has anyone found the actual article? It doesn't seem to be available on SciHub yet. Based on what little I can find without the whole article, it sounds like the "ketogenic diet" was giving the mice almost nothing but lard.

(a) Composition of the control diet (CD), 60% lard-based high fat diet (HFD) and 80% lard-based ketogenic diet (KD).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10779-y (Extended data figures and tables)

That doesn't seem like a great diet. But, maybe that's normal for these kinds of studies where they're trying to induce cancers?