Arterial Function Deteriorates on Atkins Diet

Family Practice News ^ | 1 August 2009 | NEIL OSTERWEIL

[neverdem]

It's a small sample, but these studies are not easy.

[LukeL]

A diet high in non root vegetables and high quality protein is probably the best diet you can eat. Paleolithic is the way to go.

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.

[muawiyah]

Unless the study makes some effort to differentiate in terms of genetic isolates and so forth the results are always highly questionable.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Wait.

They’re saying that unlimited red meat, cheese, butter, and eggs are bad for your arteries? Who knew?

Next, they’ll say that smoking is bad for your lungs, and a fifth of Scotch a day is bad for your liver.

Will it never end?

[kalee]

self ping

[lysie]

ping!

[utahagen]

I don't believe very fat people can handle refined carbohydrates. When they're not dieting, most fat people ingest too many calories of all types of food, so Atkins at least cuts the most troublesome foods out of their diets. Even assuming this study is valid, its findings may not be relevant to obese people. When people are saddled with hundreds of pounds of fat and addicted to bagels and muffins, the long-term dangers of too much steak don't much matter.

[Dr. Sivana]

Did they check what effect the high-carb low-fat diet had on the samples blood sugar processing?

[bgill]

You can still do low-fat on Atkins. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

[Buckhead]

“There was no diet-specific effect on … glucose, insulin …”

This is odd. Isn’t lowering glucose and insulin the point and the base of the mechanism by which low carb diets work?

[nina0113]

I used to work with a guy who did Atkins as part of a group. There was only one member of the group who did not lose significant weight. Turned out she was eating a stick of butter, rolled in cinnamon, every night for ‘dessert’.

[utahagen]

You’re right. I think Atkins (high-fat or low-fat) as a jump start for a few weeks, then transitioning to the Zone are the ways to go for most fat people. (I just don’t believe a few weeks on a high-fat diet every, say, six months is going to be dangerous to most people.)

[Jemian]

Thanks, lysie. I’d like to know more about the test and I’d like to see it repeated by other labs several more times. So far, and I was checked out thoroughly last summer, there has been absolutely no adverse results and with the additional benefit of not gaining weight.

I didn’t start losing weight, however, until I began the B12 injections.

[trumandogz]

The only diet that works is the GOYAADMEL dIet.

That would be the get off you ass and do more, eat less diet.

[queenkathy]

I’m beginning to believe the ONLY way to lose weight is with the lap band or gastric bypass surgery.

EVERY time I run into someone who’s lost weight that’s how they did it...

[goodnesswins]

Well...I’m about to have all my cholesterols tested...and I’ve been on a pretty much Paleolithic diet for about 2 months.....and I have a genetic LDL issue....(small, dense, non-buyoant ldl).....I am NOT hungry eating this way, and I lost weight...BUT, I only eat GRASS Fed meat, whenever possible.

[calex59]

Just more BS trying to make sure we all turn into vegetarians. Millions of people have lost weight with the Atkins diet and I would be that they didn’t have any higher incident of heart disease than people who didn’t. Why didn’t they do a 5 year study of people who lost weight on the diet and see what the incident rate of heart attacks were compared to a control group?

[El Gato]

This is odd. Isn’t lowering glucose and insulin the point and the base of the mechanism by which low carb diets work?

No, it's by moderating swings in glucose and insulin levels. No spikes in blood sugar caused by sugars and low "roughage" carbs. No "downs" after the insulin kicks in.

[VeniVidiVici]

Anyone who only loses 30 pounds IN A YEAR on the Atkins diet ain’t doing it right. And it is probably is what is skewing their cholesterol results.