Has anyone has problems on the Atkins diet with cholesterol going off the rooF?
1 You can fix your levels by going on a low fat diet. The biggest problem with this diet is that you only watch carbs not fat content, which is what caused the rise in your cholesterol level. I have never seen or heard anyone recommend the diet for long term because of this.
And a little known fact is that Atkins himself ultimately died from a heart attack caused by clogged arteries, which is often linked back to his own diet where fat content is not regulated.
2 The Atkins diet is fine. There is nothing stopping you from limiting the fat content of your meals. Use the leaner cuts of beef, remove fat from the chicken, use other low fat protein sources, & the necessary salmon for the Omega 3 essential fatty acids.
There wasn't much coverage about Atkins diet where I live, but there was a problem with his autopsy report. I am thinking that the medical examiner released false info on Atkins overall health. In Atkins original book there were no restrictions on fat intake; but his latter book was making similar suggestions as I put in the 1st paragraph.
I would be very surprized if he was not following his own advice.
The 460 - is that triglycerides or total cholesterol. It makes more sense to be triglycerides, and a low fat diet will make that turn normal real fast. Here is about cholesterol and lipids.
At least three formal studies of the Atkins diet have been presented at medical conferences over the past year, and all have reached similar results. The latest, conducted by Dr. Eric Westman of Duke University, was presented Monday at the annual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association, long a stronghold of support for the traditional low-fat approach. Westman, an internist at Duke's diet and fitness center, said he decided to study the Atkins approach because of concern over so many patients and friends taking it up on their own.
He approached the Robert C. Atkins foundation in New York City to finance the research. Westman studied 120 overweight volunteers, who were randomly assigned to the Atkins diet or the heart association's Step 1 diet, a widely used low-fat approach.
On the Atkins diet, people limited their carbs to less than 20 grams a day, and 60% of their calories came from fat. "It was high fat, off the scale," he said. After six months, the people on the Atkins diet had lost an average of 31 pounds, compared with 20 pounds on the AHA diet, and more people stuck with the Atkins regimen.
Total cholesterol fell slightly in both groups. However, those on the Atkins diet had an 11% increase in HDL, the good cholesterol, and a 49% drop in triglycerides. On the AHA diet, HDL was unchanged, and triglycerides dropped 22%.
High triglycerides may raise the risk of heart disease. While the volunteers' total amounts of LDL, the bad cholesterol, did not change much on either diet, there was evidence that it had shifted to a form that may be less likely to clog the arteries.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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