?How does it lower your cholesterol?

(LCer09) wrote:

Thanks.
Excellent piece of information, there are threee points of vagueness
for me.

Whoa. I read it and thought it was interesting. I didn't write it. LOL!

I realized that--although I thought the end was paraphrasing by you.

just wanted to point out, that while it seems to make sense there are
unexplained bits that are simply ignored or glossed over. Traditional
medicine and science has done this forever, and low-carb advocates
need to realize that doing it for the promotion of low-carb is just as
wrong as all the simplifications of the past on the benefits of
high-carb/low-fat.

Still thanks, that was a very good article. Gave me a much better
understanding of some of those processes.


LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 265/226/140
& hubby- 310/248/180

DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/328/200
Atkins since 1/12/2004

*AmBeR* wrote :

Just wondering how having a low carb lifestyle lowers cholesterol. I
have heard many stories of this and I just wanted to know exactly how
that works.

Super-simple version: The body creates its own cholesterol in response
to what food you eat. Eating sugar causes the body to make a lot. Eat
less sugar, make less cholesterol.

Regular-simple version: Cholesterol is what the body uses to move fat
around the body. When gaining fat it moves into fat cells all over the
body and that's a slow process so it takes more cholesterol. When
losing fat the liver sweeps all fat out of the blood stream to burn it
as fuel, a faster process, and that sweeping removes the cholesterol.

There are plenty of postings on the deeper biochemisty of why eating
fat lowers cholesterol.

(*AmBeR*) wrote in message . com...
Just wondering how having a low carb lifestyle lowers cholesterol. I
have heard many stories of this and I just wanted to know exactly how
that works.

Simple. Diets high in refined carbs causes the high cholesterol.
Refined and manufactured carbs are not real food. Blood cholesterol is
created by your body in response to a bad, unhealthy, high-carb diet.

As soon as you normalize your diet to real food such as meat and real
veggies your body is no longer out of balance and stressed
nutritionally and blood lipids go back to normal. This may not be a
real scientific or precise observation but it sure explains a lot in a
general way.

TC