Cholesterol and high fat diet

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C for Yourself <rusty wrote:Tuesday, December 3, 2002

 

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I received an e-mail from Doctor’s Guide yesterday that reported on a study

presented at the American Heart Association’s 2002 Scientific Sessions regarding

cholesterol and the “Atkins” diet. The first sentence of the article states

 

“Obese patients who followed a high-fat, low-carbohydrate " Atkins diet " for six

months lost more weight and experienced more significant favourable changes in

lipid profiles than did those who tried a low-fat diet for six months, according

to one study.”

 

The conventional wisdom that a low fat diet is imperative to avoid heart disease

has greatly changed the eating habits of millions of Americans. One need look no

further than the huge number of products that proclaim “low fat” to appreciate

how well established this thinking is. It seems to me that if the aim of the low

fat diet is to lower cholesterol or, as the article puts it “favourable changes

in lipid profiles”, the last outcome we would expect from a high fat, high

protein diet would be favorable results. And yet that is precisely what

happened. So what is the message we should take from this? Other than

“cholesterol levels don’t matter much” (a debate for another time), surely we

could suspect that the promoted low fat diet approach may be wrong. I think so.

Our body’s metabolic processes determine our serum cholesterol levels, in their

various forms, for reasons. It would appear that lowering your cholesterol level

is a more complex situation than merely lowering the fat content of your diet.

 

The famous “Framingham” study confirmed this. The Bolen Report

(www.bolenreport.com) states:

 

" At Framingham, we found that the people who ate the most saturated fat, the

most cholesterol and the most calories weighed the least, were more physically

active and had the lowest serum cholesterol levels. " (emphasis mine) - William

Castelli, M.D., Director of the Framingham Study. The Archives of Internal

Medicine, July 1992, Vol. 152, pages 1371-72.

 

Food for thought.

 

 

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