(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Even as low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets have proven successful at helping individuals to rapidly lose weight, little is known about the diets' long-term effects on vascular health. Now, a study led by a scientific team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds a significant increase in atherosclerosis in mice that were fed a low-carb diet. …
Low-carb diets linked to atherosclerosis and impaired blood vessel growth
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While this study is interesting, humans are not rodents. Dietary studies using mice, rabbits or guinea pigs are essentially useless for determining what type of diets humans should eat - those animals evolved as herbivores, and they require large quantities of carbs for optimum health. Rodents do not have the metabolic equipment to process saturated fats or cholesterol, while humans can.
Studies on humans show the opposite - that a low carb diet can be quite effective in improving blood lipids, reversing insulin resistance, and reducing BMI. Those who object to the environmental impacts of a standard low-carb diet are encouraged to research the 'eco-atkins' diet, which is a vegan low-carb diet.
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