So what REALLY is the biggest contributor to weight gain and diabetes? The latest research is not pointing the finger at sugar…..nor healthy fats. Instead we are finding out just how bad seed/vegetable oils are for us. A study done at the University of California highlighted this very well >>>> see below. “Researchers divided mice into four groups. All groups were fed diets comprised of 40 percent fat and were given the same number of calories. Where the diets differed was in the type of fat they were served. Two groups were fed a diet rich in coconut oil, a popular source of saturated fat. One of those two groups were also given fructose, a type of sugar. The other mice were given a soybean oil-heavy diet, equal to the amount a typical American consumes. One of the two soybean groups was also given fructose. The researchers discovered that mice on the soybean oil diet GAINED 25% MORE WEIGHT than mice on the coconut oil diet and 12 percent more than groups who were also giv...