Sentences with phrase «prescribed low cholesterol diets»

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Doctors are quick to prescribe low carbohydrate diets because they result in immediate weight loss, improved blood glucose control, reduced cholesterol, and reduced blood pressure.

So if the studies have not conclusively shown that consuming saturated fat or cholesterol cause heart disease, why do so many doctors, scientists, and institutions continue to recommend low - fat, low - cholesterol diets and prescribe statins (cholesterol lowering drugs)?

In a longer study35 obese T2D individuals were prescribed a well - formulated ketogenic diet for 56 weeks, and significant improvements in both weight loss and metabolic parameters were seen at 12 weeks and continued throughout the 56 weeks as evidenced by improvements in fasting circulating levels of glucose (− 51 %), total cholesterol (− 29 %), high - density lipoprotein — cholesterol (63 %), low - density lipoprotein — cholesterol (− 33 %) and triglycerides (− 41 %).