Normal Weight Women Benefit Much More than Men from Low Carb Diet

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Hello CR ALL:

Dr. Al Pater yesterday was able to secure for me a PDF copy

of the pre-release article he found on 04 Aug 2003 (below).

It is about

*** Low carbohydrate diet benefit analysis ***

An interesting summary section in the paper was the following,

showing that normal-weight women gain more from a low carbohydrate

diet than men. The very large benefit of the low-carbohydrate

diet for decreased heart disease risk in women is reflected in

the 20% vs 80% improvement of the last sentence below, as quoted

from the bottom of pg 4 of the PDF. Also see the large contrast

between men and women (below), to observe how much more women gain.

Also too, the large benefit for lower heart disease in women

of a low-carbohydrate diet, as compared to a low-fat diet,

is very clear from figure 2. This one figure alone

(unfortunately, can not show here) comparing low-carb diet versus

low-fat diet was worth the effort to obtain this research report.

I was surprised.

-- Warren

*** Women benefit more than men from low-carbohydrate diet.

*** 20% vs 80% improvement of the last sentence below.

*** Fig 2: Low-carb diet for women better than low-fat diet.

This quote here from bottom of pg 4 of the PDF:

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After a 6-wk very low carbohydrate diet period in

normal-weight men, total cholesterol, LDL-C and HDL-C

increased 5, 4 and 12%, respectively (5).

Corresponding changes in this study [in normal-weight women]

were 16, 15 and 33%.

In both normal-weight men and women, a very low carbohydrate

diet causes a disproportional increase in HDL-C such that the

total cholesterol/HDL-C is reduced, particularly in normal-weight

women. A low HDL-C concentration is strongly and inversely

associated with risk for coronary heart disease and a

high HDL-C is associated with reduced risk (16). In the Adult

Treatment Panel III (17), a high HDL-C concentration 1.55

mmol/L (60 mg/dL) is considered a negative risk factor, and

its presence evokes removal of one risk factor from the total

count used for setting treatment goals for LDL-C. Before

consumption of the very low carbohydrate diet, 20% of women

met the criterion of high HDL-C (60 mg/dL); after the very

low carbohydrate diet, 80% met this criterion.

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On 04 Aug 2003, Dr. Al Pater wrote:

Upcoming J Nutr articles in the Sept issue ...

J. S. Volek, M. J. Sharman, A. L. Gomez, T. P. Scheett, and W. J. Kraemer

An Isoenergetic Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet Is Associated With Improved Serum

High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (HDL-C), Total Cholesterol to HDL-C

Ratio, Triacylglycerols, and Postprandial Lipemic Responses Compared to a

Low-Fat Diet in Normal Weight, Normolipidemic Women