The first thing to look at is what science
says about low carb diets and cholesterol.
Not exact matches
Bonnyrebecca (youtube) ate a high
carb, very
low fat
diet because it's what everyone in the vegan community
said was the only way to go
about it.
Also, there is a myth
about low -
carb diets that
says that you can eat fatty foods such as bacon all the time.
«People on the
low -
carb diet burned an average of 325 more calories a day —
about the same number you'd burn during a moderately vigorous workout — than those on the
low - fat
diet, and those on the
low - glycemic
diet burned 150 more calories than those on the
low - fat
diet,» he
says.
From the movie Midnight Cowboy, Harry Nilsson's 1969 song still echoes in my mind: «Everybody's talking at me... I don't hear a word they're
saying...» That's sometimes how I feel today when people talk
about common trendy
low -
carb diets.
Some
say its a numbers game, the more LDL particles crashing the walls of the arteries... some
say the LDL is only a sign of vascular damage, but if my LDL goes down on a
low fat
diet, then that is bs, some
say that it may be a problem metabolizing LDL, intake / production is outpacing LDL receptor activity, some
say its not LDL but LDL that stays in the blood too long and oxidizes, some
say about 20 %
carbs (I was less than 5 %) will produce just enough insulin to help metabolize cholesterol, but the hard core
low carb guys,
say the whole cholesterol thing is a scam and cholesterol under 500, without insulin resistance is nothing to worry
about.
Pretty far from a keto
diet, and thus the results do not
say much, if anything,
about the long - term weight effects of a stricter
low -
carb diet.
Hi Paul, I love your blog,
about carbohydrates, I have to
say about myself after several months of following a
low carb diet without fruits and other starches, the result: was weight gain, constipation,
low energy, now I do not measure the amounts of carbohydrates and eat large quantities of fruit and starches such as sweet potatoes, bananas, yuca... result?
These studies
say nothing
about other approaches like higher fats
lower carb diets and others.
I've heard good and not - so - good
about it, one
says it is digestable and it's not
low -
carb compatible for a ketogenic
diet.
Now that we know you've gotten funding there, one of the studies that I am so intrigued
about is when you were
saying for a whole year, let's put this group on a very
low fat
diet and this group on a very
low carb diet.
You know your body better than anyone else, but I would
say that the most important comments that you made in your post was the note
about the course of antibiotics that you were on before developing your disease and maybe had very little to do with the
low carb diet.