Low Carb Diets and Your Heart

You've heard it so many times that it may cause you to worry. "Eating fat is bad for you." "Low carb diets will cause heart disease." And the persistent but totally false, "Atkins died of his own diet". Well, you'll be happy to know that the science is on our side, and it's getting harder and harder for the naysayers to put up a fight. Here is some ammunition to silence those nagging inner and outer voices when it comes to low carb diets and your heart. Let's start with this large study, which showed that glycemic load was the biggest dietary factor in preventing heart disease, and that even eating a lot of animal fat and protein did not raise the risk of heart disease when the diet was low in carbohydrate.

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