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Default Low carb diet and heart disease...

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"Peter Aitken" > wrote:

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> Most people overlook the fact that the studies that showed high-fat diets to
> be unhealth did not limit carbs in any way. There's a lot of evidence that
> the amount of carbs you eat has a big effect on what your body does with the
> fats in your diet and whether or not they impact your health.


Gods. So true!!!
Did ANY of the "high fat" studies restrict carbs in any way???

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> The Atkins diet is often misrepresented as "eat all you want of any high-fat
> food." This is not true. Neither is the claim that Atkins is a low-vegetable
> diet. Atkins includes tons of vegetables with a few high-carb ones
> (potatoes, carrots, corn, for example) restricted. Atkins does not claim to
> be the only effective diet. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who have
> the "fat is bad" mantra permanently embedded in their small brains that they
> refuse to face the evidence.


Yep. :-)

Kat

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