Low-Carb Diet Protects Heart and Arteries

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To avoid atherogenesis (building up of plaque in the artery walls,

leading to cardiovascular disease and heart attack), a low-carb diet

protects the arteries and protects the heart.

In normal weight men, low-carb diets create healthy large LDL particle

size (pattern " A " ).

High-carb diets create unhealthy small LDL particle size (pattern " B " ).

See Figure 2 in the RM Krauss reference here for a dramatic and convincing

illustration that shows a nearly perfect linear relation for improved

healthy LDL particle size for the low-carb diet:

Krauss RM.

Atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype and diet-gene interactions.

J Nutr. 2001 Feb;131(2):340S-3S. Review.

PMID: 11160558 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/131/2/340S

Looking at Figure 2, you see that the low-carb diet dramatically

decreases pattern B (of the small unhealthy LDL particle size).

The improvement in cholesterol particle sizing is a nearly perfect

linear relation that comes from reducing the diet carbohydrate content.

And read this sentence in the text, that introduces Fig. 2:

" Overall, in a series of such studies employing diets with varying fat

content and reciprocal variation in carbohydrate content, there is a

strong linear relationship of decreased fat/increased carbohydrate intake

with prevalence of [unhealthy] LDL subclass pattern B in healthy men. "

Thus to avoid atherogenesis (building up of plaque in the artery walls,

leading to cardiovascular disease and heart attack), the low-carb diet

protects the arteries and protects the heart.

-- Warren