Re:Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
by nsl73 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:36AM
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It’s a really extreme diet. I would be concerned with the fat intake, the cholesterol intake, and limits on certain fruits and vegetables.
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Re:Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
by PudgePacket on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:06AM
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Your body makes more cholesterol than you get from diet, it's more complicated than just "cholesterol high = bad".
Also would encourage you to read up on recent literature about fats. The "low fat = healthy" fad hasn't held up for some time.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510972...
> The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke.