[MHT]

Fat is actually good for you. When people go on low-fat diets and return to eating fat, they often experience gall bladder problems so extreme that removal is required. Several people, even young teens, found that after being on Nutri-System and Jenny Craig that their gall bladders had "turned off" and they couldn't adjust to processing normal fat regimes again. Some sued and these low-fat systems were required to change their formats.

Ultimately, low-fat is more dangerous to the system than low carb.

[lsucat]

Very interesting. I was on an extremely lowfat diet when I was in college and ended up having my gall bladder removed at a very young age. My doctor was puzzled as to why I would have gall bladder problems at nineteen.

[Mamzelle]

The fact about gall bladder disease: if you lose a good bit of weight, particularly if you lose it quickly, you run a higher risk of gall bladder disease. BUT--if you are overweight, you also run a higher risk of gall bladder disease.

The dieticians tried to pin the blame of GBD on Atkins--but anyone who is overweight, and anyone who loses weight, including the locarb way, increases their risk.

Fat, Fair, and Forty is one guideline. Seems to afflict a lot of overweight and middle-aged white women.

[SamAdams76]

Interesting. My wife had to have her gall bladder removed and she has struggled with weight her whole life. Often with those dreadful "low-fat" diets. What misery it was for her to have to measure everything and count calories and all that.

She is now on her second week of the Atkins plan. She does not want to try my low-carb approach because she likes a plan well laid out that she can stick with. I wish her luck and only wish she would come out and exercise with me.