[Shooter 2.5]

There's 9 grams of suger in a Burger King Whopper and 35 grams of suger in a milk chocolate Slim-Fast.

Anyone on the Atkin's diet should watch their cholestral. It isn't just fat that kills.

[DannyTN]

"Anyone on the Atkin's diet should watch their cholestral. It isn't just fat that kills.

Cholesterol improves on the Atkin's diet. Good colesterol goes up, bad colesterol goes down. Atkins theory on cholesterol was that it works like an antioxidant. The body manufactures choleserol when it doesn't get enough antioxidant vitamins. Most antioxidant vitamins are FAT soluable. Therefore the lowfat diets are robbing people of good nutrition.

This was confirmed in the recent AMA tests that compared Low fat to Low card diets. The Low carb diets lost twice as much weight than the low fat diets and cholesterol improved too. Which shocked the AMA doctors as they thought the study would blow Atkins out of the water.

[Henrietta]

"Anyone on the Atkin's diet should watch their cholestral. It isn't just fat that kills."

People on the Atkins diet will normally experience a drop in serum cholesterol levels. Fat does not kill, unless you're eating the trans (hydrogenated) fats that have been strongly associated with heart disease. Omega -3 and -6 fats, found in olive oil, fish oil, and flax oil, are beneficial, and our bodies need them to produce the proteins that keep our brains functioning.

People shouldn't eat processed sugar and trans fats. Our bodies just aren't equipped to handle a steady diet of this stuff.

[Aquinasfan]

Anyone on the Atkin's diet should watch their cholestral.

Watch bad cholesterol go down and good cholesterol go up, you mean?

Two studies from the New England Journal of Medicine here.

Next paradigm to shift: evolution.

[chilepepper]

Your error is to assume cholesterol buildup in humans is caused by fat. It is not.

The chemical process is quite complex and some researchers even believe that a VIRUS is what causes the buildup of plaque, and this virus uses the elevated blood-sugar caused by excess CARBS along with the cholesterol from too much animal fat. If you eliminate the high blood-sugar, the animal fat doesn't matter.

I've been on Atkins about four years and have triglycerides of about 85... pass the bacon and eggs and oh yes, i'll have some diet jello with whipped cream, splenda, and walnuts fried in butter (topped with fresh strawberries and toasted coconut)

[Labyrinthos]

Anyone on the Atkin's diet should watch their cholestral.

I've been on a modified Atkins, low carb diet for a year. My total Cholestral has gone down, and the good stuff has gone up.

[Malsua]

>>It isn't just fat that kills. <<

Ice also kills. Atkins found out about that one too late.