Low-Carb Diet Benefits Blood Lipids - The People's Pharmacy®

A low-carbohydrate diet may be helpful for the heart. Over 300 obese subjects were recruited to follow either an Atkin's style low-carb approach or a low-calorie, low-fat diet. What was surprising, though, was that the people who were on the Atkin's type low-carb diet increased their good HDL cholesterol by 23 percent, nearly twice that of the group following the low-fat diet. For years, nutrition experts have worried that following an Atkin's-type diet would be bad for the heart.