I find so many of us have found the same to be true-A snippet from the article below...
"As people fire up their grills for barbecues over Labor Day weekend, a new analysis touts the benefits of a low-carb, meat-lovers' diet.
A review of 17 different studies that followed a total of 1,141 obese patients on low-carb eating plans — some were similar to the Atkins diet — found that dieters lost an average of almost 18 pounds in six months to a year.
Overall, participants had improvements in their waist circumference, blood pressure, triglycerides (blood fats), fasting blood sugar, C-reactive protein (another heart disease risk factor) as well as an increase in HDL (good) cholesterol. LDL (bad) cholesterol did not change significantly.
"These improvements occurred during weight loss which is known to lead to some of these changes," says William Yancy, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and a researcher who worked on the analysis. It's being published in the journalObesity Reviews.
Yancy has done several previous studies on the Atkins diet, including some that were funded by the Atkins Foundation. A low-carb diet is a reasonable one to follow to lose weight and improve heart disease risk factors, he says."
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Paul
2 comments:
Always encouraging to see good news and further support in relation to the low carb way.
Jean
Every day more are discovering the low carb high fat lifestyle. I always use the word lifestyle because for me that's what it is.
Yes you can lose weight, yes you can improve blood sugar numbers, yes you can improve other health aspects too.
Yes for me it's a way of life.
Interesting post - thanks Paul
All the best Jan
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