Is Low Carb Better For Your Cholesterol?
What’s best for your cholesterol, low-fat or low-carb? According to the Senior Scientist Ronald Krauss, MD, the man behind the research on LDL (bad cholesterol) size, low-carb is better:
2012 ADA Diabetes Dispatch: Low-Carb diet may reduce CVD risk better than low-fat diet
I have a total cholesterol of 266 with a very high LDL since switching to lower carb/neo-Paleo, no longer obese, exercising. Doc is spasming. My trigs and HDL are nice, I'm pattern A, but the LDL is 190.
So, yeah, I worry some, but I'm NOT obese or prediabetic anymore, and I feel better. So, um, whatever.
This month I'm eating almost nothing BUT steak! :)
http://highsteaks.com/tag/30-day-steak-challenge/
Try this link:
http://tristarpub.com/ada2012/?p=218
You may want to look into NMR Lipoprofile. This blood test provides LDL-P particle count , various marker sizes and counts. From the NMR results, you can gauge your risk level for CVD and insulin resistance.
The standard lipid panel only provides the cholesterol marker volume and not the marker numbers. The LDL-C is calculated from a formula. You can only make indirect inferences about your risk level from lipid panel reading.
Thanks for the link. Read the abstract, a bit too deep for me. Sample size of 40 is perhaps too small to draw significant conclusions? May be that's the reason for the NIH further study to look at effects of protein from different meats/nonmeat.
1) In this kind of studies it is essential to control for food interations. Even a small amount of carbs (and other nasties used in processed meats) hidden away here and there can throw the results and make meat consumption look bad for u
2) the life style of the animals before becomeins meat is also important. The 'grass fed' bit is important. By eating corn fed animals we are eating essentially obese animals with bad lipid profiles who are likely to make us as sick they were....
I still think this is early days low carb research and they are unlikely to watch out for the above important detail. The questionnaires used in these observational studies simply ask about your meat consumption rarely about its quality provenance degree of precessing.
In the absence of carbs/sugar meat is good for us! Just needs to be proved more convincingly
“Plasma total, LDL, and non-HDL cholesterol as well as apoB concentrations were lower after the low-carbohydrate, low-saturated fat diet period than after the low-carbohydrate, high-saturated fat diet period. Given our previous observations with mixed protein diets, the present findings raise the possibility that dietary protein source may modify the effects of saturated fat on atherogenic lipoproteins”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22031660
Just be careful with the amount of protein and include a lot of fat and a lot of (non-starchy) vegetables.
I definitely recommend to phase out statins as soon as possible. Their effect is questionable while side effects are aplenty.
I'm not sure I fully understand what you meant on "adequate carbohydrates". 50-100 g daily is certainly adequate even when working out. That is still considered low carb.
That is a huge improvement in just a few months, so I strongly advise to stick to the diet. You need to find out how much more carb is needed for heavy exercise if any.