Fatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats - such as avocados, nuts and olive oil - have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important message to your brain: stop eating, you're full.
The broad point is probably known to you, but read the whole press release, as there's more biochemical detail....
Ron Rosedale has been saying this for years. Insulin and leptin resistance from eating too many carbohydrates make you fat - and hungry all the time.
For health reasons I have had to subsist on a very high-fat diet. Strangely, my cloresterol went down from 240 to around 170.
My feeling is that anything that tastes as good as fat can't be all bad.
Nice to see nutrition science starting to come back to reality after a 30-year holiday.
Luke -- you're not the only one. High fat/low carb diets actually reduce the cholesterol:HDL fraction more than low fat/high carb ones:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/3/229