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Dangers of a low carb diet
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Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases your cholesterol. PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is perfectly safe or do we not know? Wendy |
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Wendy J. wrote:
:: Hi, :: :: Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never :: felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is :: healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have :: heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the :: liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases :: your cholesterol. :: :: PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is :: perfectly safe or do we not know? You might wish to read Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang Lutz You might also want to read articles linked from this page: http://www.lowcarbresearch.org/lcr/results.asp |
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Dangers of a low carb diet
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@aol.com says... Hi, Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases your cholesterol. PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is perfectly safe or do we not know? Wendy My Cholestrol dropped 50 points eating the low carb diet. I am quite strict on cheating though. Also, my triglycerides dropped from 731 to 137 in 90 days. My Hemoglobin A1C results dropped from 10.9% to 5.2% in that same 90 days. Do not let the Low Fat Wacko's sway you. It works and It's Safe if you don't cheat. Chose a way of eating, But Only One, Fat or Carbs, just not both. Low fat will reduce your cholestrol too, just increases your waste line |
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Dangers of a low carb diet
And quit calling it a freaking HIGH FAT diet. Initially it got pushed like
that but there are PLENTY of low fat ways to low carb and even Dr Atkin's realized that at some point. You cannot consider this a *diet* in that it would be something you do to lose weight and then *go off* it. That will just make you fat again. I has got to be a LIFESTYLE CHANGE for the REST OF YOUR LIFE or there is no point to even bothering. It is not a race where you get to *the end* and then you can quit running. Teeb "Wendy J." wrote in message om... Hi, Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases your cholesterol. PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is perfectly safe or do we not know? Wendy |
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wendy,
what LC WOE have you chosen? do you have the book yet? -- read and post daily, it works! rosie "Hell they won't lie to me/ Not on my own damn TV/ But how much is a liar's word worth/ And whatever happened to peace on earth?" .....................................Willie Nelson REGIME CHANGE BEGINS AT HOME ****VOTE**** "Wendy J." wrote in message om... Hi, Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases your cholesterol. PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is perfectly safe or do we not know? Wendy |
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Teeb wrote:
And quit calling it a freaking HIGH FAT diet. Initially it got pushed like that but there are PLENTY of low fat ways to low carb and even Dr Atkin's realized that at some point. Um. For many of us here, it is a high fat diet. I usually get over 65% of my total calories from fat. Many others will say the same. It is possible to keep both the carbs and the fat low, but then you have to make up the difference in protein and there's some evidence to suggest that there may be problems from excessive protein. You may also end up undercutting to lowcarb portion of the diet because of the conversion of protein. You cannot consider this a *diet* in that it would be something you do to lose weight and then *go off* it. That will just make you fat again. I has got to be a LIFESTYLE CHANGE for the REST OF YOUR LIFE or there is no point to even bothering. It is not a race where you get to *the end* and then you can quit running. Where do you see in the OP's post that she doesn't recognize this as a long term commitment? To me, it seems quite obvious that she is trying to find out what the long term ramifications are. As for calling it a diet, it is a diet. Martha Teeb "Wendy J." wrote in message om... Hi, Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases your cholesterol. PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is perfectly safe or do we not know? Wendy -- Begin where you are - but don't end there. |
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I felt pretty bad while doing a low fat diet, to the point of even
feeling the odd tightness in my chest.. I've been low carbing for a little over four months now..I just got my cholesterol numbers back, and they have gone from 6.1 down to 4.9, while my triglycerides have gone from 1.2 down to 0.5. So, if you believe cholesterol is an indication of cadiovascular health, then mine has gotten much, much better by eating low carb (granted I've lost 30 lbs this way, and that has a big impact on cholesterol as well). |
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Wendy J. wrote:
Ok, I have only been low-carbing for 5 weeks now and I have never felt better in my life. However, I am concerned as to whether it is healthy in the long run to be on a high fat, low carb diet. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks and is bad for the liver. It can also shorten your life span. And that it increases your cholesterol. PLEASE can someone put my mind at rest and tell me that it is perfectly safe or do we not know? Sure. Whoever is telling you this nonsense is clueless. Maybe they are sincerely repeating falsehoods they heard. Maybe they are just trying to sabotage you. high fat Correct. High fat is good for you. It is the cause of several of the benefits of the plan. low carb. Correct. It is the cause of the rest of the benefits. I have heard that it can eventually cause heart attacks Absolute nonsense. Dr Atkins was a cardiologist who developed to process for his heart patients. And he was so healthy on his own plan that he had to slip on the ice and bash his head to die. While walking to work because he go too much pleasure from working that he didn't feel like retiring. and is bad for the liver. Absolute nonsense. The usual lie is it is bad for your kidneys. Whoever repeated the story too you couldn't even get the right organ. But anyways, no cases of kidney damage have ever been reported by anyone who started with healthy kidneys and followed the directions. It can also shorten your life span. Think about it. You wrote: "I have never felt better in my life". How could that possibly jive with a shortened lifespan. And that it increases your cholesterol. Somebody flunked freshmen biochemistry. The reasons low carbing lower cholesterol are basic biochem. In fact it lowers cholesterol in about 80% of people after 6+ months on the process. Don't forget blood pressure. Curing high blood pressure is one of the most common results. |
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1) It is a high fat diet. 2) It is a diet (well that's what the book calls it). 3) I am going to continue eating like this for the rest of my life. Did I say I planned on stopping when I got to my goal weight? No, I didn't. 4) Why would I be asking about long term health implications if I was only going to do it to "the end." You don't know what you are talking about. Wendy "Teeb" wrote in message ... And quit calling it a freaking HIGH FAT diet. Initially it got pushed like that but there are PLENTY of low fat ways to low carb and even Dr Atkin's realized that at some point. You cannot consider this a *diet* in that it would be something you do to lose weight and then *go off* it. That will just make you fat again. I has got to be a LIFESTYLE CHANGE for the REST OF YOUR LIFE or there is no point to even bothering. It is not a race where you get to *the end* and then you can quit running. Teeb |
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