“A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet ...”
I keep hearing that eating like that is going to result in high cholesterol and triglycerides. I keep getting blood work that comes back with results that are more common for somebody less than half my age. The “fat makes you fat” crowd says that it will eventually catch up with me. I guess we will see.
“The “fat makes you fat” crowd says that it will eventually catch up with me. I guess we will see.”
Hopefully you are VERY PATIENT. Nina Teicholz has reviewed all of the studies and simply can’t find anything that confirms what the Left claims.
I was pretty strict paleo from 2009 to about late 2016
My blood pressure atayed below around 100/55, cholesterol was high but doc’s always said keep doing whatever you are doing
Read some of the newer non establishment studies on cholesterol and you’ll see that the link between cholesterol and heart disease is seriously in question
High cholesterol is a condition generated by your own liver, and triglycerides are generated from partial metabolization of various carbohydrates. See, carbs have a hexagonal ring of carbon as their base structure, which is broken into two three-carbon segments, forming the basis for the formation of triglycerides. This first step is called propionic acid. Blood glucose, supposedly the energy carrier in your bloodstream, is only accepted by the cells when there is just the right amount of insulin to effect the transfer. Excess glucose is held by the red blood cells when it does not get metabolized, and is identified by something called the HbA1c ratio, which in non-diabetic persons is somewhere in the range of 5% of all the red blood cells circulating at a given time.
One of the partially metabolized steps of glucose is something called pyruvic acid, evolved from propionic acid, and this is further metabolized into lactic acid, as the oxygen supply gets used. Lactic acid is what causes the “tired” feeling and the pain from great muscle exertion, and is only slowly washed away as the complex regains its normal balance of oxygen.
Fully metabolized glucose is reduced to its component parts, carbon dioxide, and with additional oxygen, water. How do you lose weight? Simple, you exhale CO2 with every breath, or it leaves your body by exuding from the skin surface. The same for excess water, which is also drained from the body through the kidneys and keeps many biologic poisons washed out of the body with the passage of urine.
Fat does not make you fat. In the right ratios of saturated and unsaturated lipids, it serves many functions throughout the body, one of which is as a reserve energy source when glucose or other carbohydrates are is reduced supply.
Fasts lasting for 36 hours or longer force the body to convert to this fat-burning mode, as all blood glucose is depleted within the first 24 hours of the fast.
Remember to stay hydrated, though, or the fast is ineffectual.
High cholesterol and triglycerides come from eating too much sugar.
Your body makes cholesterol, it can produce too much in response to too much sugar intake. It doesn’t come from the cholesterol you eat. In fact, almost all of the dietary cholesterol is excreted from the body.