Friday, November 24, 2006

Re: [rosacea] Re: Study: Low-Carb, CHD Unrelated

I think a lot of the general public assumes ³Atkins² when you mention low
carb. I do really well on low carb and lost 50 lbs as well. People asked me
how I did it and when I say ³low carb,² I get the scrunched up face. Then I
say, ³I said LOW carb, not NO carb!²

Karen

From: gerlygerl <gerlygerl@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: "rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com"
<rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:21:36 -0000
To: "rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com" <rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [rosacea] Re: Study: Low-Carb, CHD Unrelated

brady,

i'm so tired of low-carb diet trashing! one can get all the nutrients
one needs and yet still eat low carb. my body just doesn't respond to
low-fat diets, but i've always carried extra weight...yet when i went
low-carb, my IBS all but disappeared, i had more energy, i lost
weight, and my fibromyalgia pains weren't so bad. (i've been through
testing, and i'm not allergic to gluten or grains)

to each, their own, but certain people have a vested interest in
pushing their own versions of what it means to eat 'healthy,' even
when that version isn't the best for all of us.

sara

--- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:rosacea-support%40yahoogroups.com> , "Brady Barrows" <brady@...>
wrote:
>
> I have been criticized since 1999 that the Rosacea Diet is not a
healthy diet
> but more studies have shown that eating low carb is not as bad as
everyone
> thinks. Here is a quote from a recent study done at Harvard:
>
> "A new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study —the first to
examine the
> long-term effects of low carbohydrate diets—has found there is no
association
> between such diets and an increased risk of developing coronary
heart disease
> (CHD).
>
> The study, which appeared in the Nov. 9 issue of The New England
Journal of
> Medicine, relied on data collected from HSPH's Nurses' Health Study,
a sweeping
> project which collected data from over 120,000 women starting in 1976.
>
> HSPH researchers also found that there was an association between a
lowered risk
> of heart disease and low-carb diets that were high in vegetable
sources of fat and
> protein.
>
> "We are not recommending a low-carb diet over a low-fat diet," said
> Thomas L. Halton, one of the authors of the study.
>
> "The truth of the matter is that neither [is] ideal. Both have good
points and
> bad points."
>
> According to Halton, carbohydrate and fat sources have a greater
impact on the
> risk of CHD than the quantity of carbohydrates and fat consumed.
>
> "You can take the best of both diets and eliminate the negatives by
focusing on
> vegetable sources of fat and protein and choosing lower glycemic
sources of
> carbohydrates," said Halton, a former HSPH doctoral student.
>
> Non-dietary factors such as levels of cholesterol and blood
pressure, as well as
> diabetes and exercise, did not appear to impact the relationship
between low carb
> diets and CHD risk.
>
> "We controlled for [those factors] in our analyses so we can say the
association
> between low carb diet and risk of CHD was independent of other risk
factors
> for CHD," Halton said."
>
> source >
>
> http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515865
>

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