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Low-carb diets are nothing new. You can forget about "good"
fats and "bad" fats. And you do not have to eliminate
all carbs from your diet. You do need to limit them, however,
and to avoid combining too many carbs with too much fat in the
same meal. It is this combination that raises your LDL cholesterol,
which is called "bad" cholesterol because experts believe
it can raise your risk of heart disease. (This combination is
also what makes you gain body fat). HDL cholesterol is called
"good" cholesterol, because higher levels have been
shown to decrease your risk of heart disease. When you test your
cholesterol, you need to know these numbers, not just the total
cholesterol number, in order to interpret your results.
Following a low carb diet has the following results: LDL levels
goes down ( due to decreasing carbs in the diet) and the HDL levels
goes up! Fat in the diet raises HDL levels. And saturated fat
raises HDL more than polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats do.
The truth is, low fat diets are not great low cholesterol diets,
and they are not healthy for your body. Your brain is 80% fat,
and it needs fat to function throughout your entire life.
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people enjoy a low carb diet much more than a low fat diet - because
your body wants and needs fat. And when you give your body the fat
it needs, you usually notice a decreased appetite and fewer cravings
for sweets. What Dr. Atkins said all along is true - you can eat
steak, cheeseburgers, eggs, ham, cheese - and lose weight and have
healthy cholesterol levels at the same time. Even though the experts
still will not admit it, a low carb diet is a healthy low cholesterol
diet!
But you do not have to eliminate all carbs and go into ketosis
to have these benefits. A low carb diet that is less extreme than
the Atkins diet works just as well for most people.
Myths about low-carb diets abound and this article will deal with
several of them. It is important for readers to know that the low-carb
craze is a true phenomenon, encompassing many writers and many approaches.
Though each differs from the other in slight ways, the bottom line
is this: To be healthy, humans need to reduce their intake of carbohydrates
in any form and increase their intake of protein and fats, especially
animal fats. The following is a summary survey of the various approaches
to low-carb nutrition. Despite their critics, low-carb proponents
stand by their nutritional recommendations as healthy and vibrant.
In Atkins’, and other low-carbers view, excessive amounts
of carbohydrates stimulate excessive insulin release by the pancreas.
Insulin is the hormone that carries sugars into our cells for use.
It is also the fat-storing hormone and excessive levels lead to
obesity and a host of other hormonal imbalances which in turn lead
to a plethora of degenerative diseases. If insulin levels remain
high, due to excessive amounts of carbs in the diet, ketosis/lipolysis
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