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**FOB** · September 20th, 2010, 04:02 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

??? Who are you talking to and what conclusion?

wrote:
| On Sep 19, 1:54 pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
|| FOB (removethis) wrote:
||
||| Not necessarily different people, perhaps different timing. It's my
||| understanding that it tends to go up at first, then come down after
||| a few months. Not that it really matters, anyway, as there is
||| current research showing cholesterol doesn't cause heart attacks.
||| It's inflammation that triggers deposits.
||
|| The 1993/1999 editions of the Atkins book claimed that by 6 months in
|| about 80% of folks see better cholesterol numbers. The 2002 edition
|| claimed that by 2 months in "most" see better cholesterol numbers.
||
|| So it's not a sure thing that low carbing will cause improvement,
|| but it is a sure thing that you need to wait half a year before the
|| tests start to actually mean anything because of how the numbers go
|| in the first few weeks. Patience.
|
| The statements attributed to Atkins above obviously refute your
| conclusion.