Comments on: Mother’s Fatty Diet Makes Baby Monkeys Afraid of Mr. Potato Head

By: raw food diet

raw food diet — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:42:14 +0000

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By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:52:29 +0000

These researchers are some of the sickest people in this nation. How would they feel if their babies were placed in cages and terrified for some stupid experiment? This is disgusting.

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:13:27 +0000

Again – a cruel and outdated experiement is performed on our closest relatives at the taxpayers expense! These so-called scientist need to stop wasting our money and get a real job already! It’s disgusting!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:38:25 +0000

This is cruelty beyond believe

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:57:57 +0000

Ok ask what happened to the mothers of the babies, they were killed once the babies were taken out by ceserian, and their brains dissected. What sense does any of this make spending $750,000.00 dollars of tax payers money on what. Torture. This so called scientist should be jailed for being an idiot. Come on respond and tell me what sense this is

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:28:32 +0000

We have long known that high-fat diets aren’t healthy for humans–and this inhumane experiment is not going to tell us anything else about human health. Our bodies are very different from monkeys’. And if we want to know more about how our bodies are affected by diet, we can study the diets of HUMANS who are naturally eating high-fat vs. low-fat diets. Researchers are already doing this in a wide range of studies.

By: allison

allison — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:25:11 +0000

this study is disgusting. first of all, it’s cruel to monkeys. second, it doesn’t tell us anything about human health. third, mr. potato head? really? is this a joke?

By: Arlo

Arlo — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:37:42 +0000

>> You heard it here, potential mothers-to-be: Watch what you eat while pregnant, or your child could end up with a lifelong potato head paranoia.

Glad you made a joke out of this, but I’m afraid that people will take this as evidence against eating fat. Our scavenging, every-last-calorie, meat eating ancestors of 2.x million (and perhaps longer) might disagree.

Short rant: I’m surprised that anybody thinks that dietary experiments on other primates or, heck, MICE of all species say anything about how a particular diet affects humans. How long ago did we diverge from rodents? Isn’t diet an integral component of a species evolution?

Example: The still propagated myth that dietary cholesterol affects serum cholesterol traces it’s origins back to an experiment (in the 1930′s I believe) where-in rabbits were fed high amounts of dietary cholesterol (and I mean high even in human standards) and developed atherosclerosis. Rabbits didn’t evolve over millions of years to eat the same diet we do. Why do we trust rodent studies so? Because they are cheap and easy to breed, and are less subject to ethical considerations?

It’s cognitive dissonance to think that every other species is well adapted to it’s particular diet, but we humans are not adapted to protein, meat and fat, even though we’ve been scavenging it for millions of years and hunting it actively for hundreds of thousands.