In a six-month trial, diets with higher fat and lower carbohydrate content resulted in less weight loss than diets with lower fat and higher carbohydrate content in metabolically healthy adults, despite being isocaloric.

“the high fat high soybean oil line what does it show it shows that the people who ate the most soybean oil lost the least amount of weight again everybody lost weight because their dietary recall was inadequate they didn't give them enough calories to maintain their weight what you can see though is that the soybean oil the more soybean oil they had the less weight they lost the less soybean oil they had the more weight they lost”

“however obesity rates in china have increased rapidly in parallel with the transition from the traditional low-fat high carbohydrate diet nutritional asian diet of mostly white rice to a diet relatively high in fat and reduced carbohydrate”

“those who had the least soybean oil lost the most weight”