RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 16:17:43 MDT

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    Harvey,

    > Yes, Healthy HDL increased more on the Atkins diet, but so did unhealthy
    LDL
    > and so did total cholesterol. In other words, the high fat diet raised all
    > cholesterol as conventional wisdom would predict. The conventional diet
    > lowered bad unhealthy LDL and total cholesterol while raising healthy HDL.
    > This is the effect I would want; I would not want the Atkins effect of
    > raising all cholesterol.

    What are the actual numbers for the two diets? How different are the means
    for total cholesterol?

    The abstract states:

    "After three months, no significant differences were found between the
    groups in total or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations. The
    [good] increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations and
    the [good] decrease in triglyceride concentrations were greater among
    subjects on the low-carbohydrate [Atkins] diet than among those on the
    conventional diet throughout most of the study."

    This looks good for Atkins after 3 months. Do they give HDL and LDL numbers
    after one year? Thanks.

    -gts

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