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Originally Posted by Dzone

I was reading about Dr Robert Atkins. He ended up with heart disease and had a heart attack. So much for Atkins diet being good for your heart

Just because a person dies of heart disease who created a diet does not mean that it is bad for you. Congenital heart problems may have been the cause.

NEW research has shown that TRANS fats not saturated fats are the ones that are bad for you. * see web md article below.

Sugar is the real devil. One can eat tons of veggies on adkins or keto and I can count 10 fruits some of which you can eat a lot of. It is not just butter and bacon. If you are going to do it, do it right with lots of monounsaturated fats too.

Keto saves lives. Yeah there are people who "do adkins/keto" and binge on snack cakes and crap on the weekend and that is terrible for your heart. I can tell you as a proponent of keto that my blood markers are excellent. My HDL actually goes up (So does LDL but it is about the ratio which is really good) Triglycerides are excellent, blood sugar is perfect. "Anecdote" you say. Yeah it is but people who do it strictly use it wisely and to the BENEFIT of their health.

Anyway, it is easy to discount something. IN FACT, if more people used keto your health insurance would go down......."JIpped you are stupid" Listen to me.....40% of adults are OBESE! Almost all of these people and a great number of just overweight people have type 2 or pre-type 2 diabetes. It costs on average $15,000 more per year to insure these folk. If we could get back to 1970s BMIs 90% of this would be gone as type 2 is 100% preventable. (10% for those who have wrecked their endocrine system and will become type 1) guess what.....these people would cost less to insure freeing up 10s if not 100s of millions of $. (granted insurance companies would not give this up immediately but we live in a free market economy which would cause it to go down)

Keto is good. I will get off my soap box now.

Saturated Fats: Bad, Not Bad?

ON SUGAR: The research team put its theory to the test and found after just a few weeks of participants consuming a diet high in refined (processed) sugar, those with CHD began to experience several signs of heart abnormalities, like higher levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL (bad cholesterol), and lower levels of HDL (good cholesterol), all of which increase their risk of heart disease. Meanwhile, saturated fats increased levels of LDL, but in doing so also increased levels of HDL, making their negative impact on the heart less dangerous compared to sugar. Ultimately, this led researchers to conclude in their study that "sugar consumption, particularly in the form of refined added sugars, are a greater contributor to CHD than saturated fats."