Originally posted by: Hardcore
Originally posted by: rickn
Originally posted by: Tinkerhell
is it good or bad for your cholesterol?
good. unlike atkins approach to fats, SB is geared more around the safe fats, like olive oil. etc. they don't make you eat a pound of bacon for breakfast
And yet, research after research have shown that on an Atkins' diet, cholesterol levels actually gets better.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2002-11-18-adkins_x.htm
The Atkin's diet doesn't 'make' anybody eat anything that absurd. The point of it is, that fat is not as dangerous as people believe. When you eat a low carb diet, your body handles fat MUCH differently than it does when you eat a high carb diet. Humans have only had agriculture and farming for about 8000 years, prior to that, for hundreds of thousands of years, we were a hunter/gatherer society... so our body knows full well how to handle fat... infact, it handles it much better than carbohydrates, which is a reason why obesity and diabetes is such a big problem in NA society.