Atkins Day 10 - GOT BEEF???
2 A high blood cholesterol is said to promote atherosclerosis and thus also coronary heart disease. But many studies have shown that people whose blood cholesterol is low become just as atherosclerotic as people whose cholesterol is high.
3 Your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The production of cholesterol increases when you eat little cholesterol and decreases when you eat much. This explains why the ”prudent” diet cannot lower cholesterol more than on average a few per cent.
4 There is no evidence that too much animal fat and cholesterol in the diet promotes atherosclerosis or heart attacks. For instance, more than twenty studies have shown that people who have had a heart attack haven't eaten more fat of any kind than other people, and degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy is unrelated with the diet.
5 The only effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs, but neither heart mortality or total mortality have been improved with drugs the effect of which is cholesterol-lowering only. On the contrary, these drugs are dangerous to your health and may shorten your life.
6 The new cholesterol-lowering drugs, the statins, do prevent cardio-vascular disease, but this is due to other mechanisms than cholesterol-lowering. Unfortunately, they also stimulate cancer in rodents, disturb the functions of the muscles, the heart and the brain and pregnant women taking statins may give birth to children with malformations more severe than those seen after thalidomide.
7 Many of these facts have been presented in scientific journals and books for decades but are rarely told to the public by the proponents of the diet-heart idea.
8 The reason why laymen, doctors and most scientists have been misled is because opposing and disagreeing results are systematically ignored or misquoted in the scientific press.
Also, take the time to read this. Don't just blindly believe what these doctors tell you. Take your health into your own hands and don't be a sheep. #4 - Animal fats and cholesterol do not cause heart attacks: http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth4.htm
I will never believe that high cholesterol isn't bad. I am not putting down Atkins. It has proven itself for most people for fast weight loss. I would do it myself, but I can't seem to stick to it. Do I think it is a healthy way of eating, NO!
Obviously, I must not be that worried about my health that I allowed myself to become obese in the first place. I guess I block it out and always think nothings going to happen to me.
One person in particular that I think that has benefitted from this diet, especially due to her diabetes, is LVS. There seems to be no denying that. LVS doesn't seem to eat like you do though. She counts her calories as well so know way is she eating all that. Brenda
If he only eats like that now and then that it will obviously not the problem that it would be if it were more often. I ate that crap often and that is what I know did this to me. Believe me, I'm no angel when it comes to eating junk. Do I limit it a great deal more now than before, YES! The stuff Chris was eating is high in saturated fat and that is unhealthy. Do I think saturated fat clogs arteries, Yep!
I didn't say he did eat it often and I don't condemn anyone. I allow myself slack, so why wouldn't I to Chris? Truly not my business how he eats, it's his. Point I was trying to make was just that this is not a way to eat IMO regularly. I don't care what articles are quoted. There are just as many, if not more, stating otherwise. I choose to believe what I choose to believe. Brenda
My name is Brenda not Branda. Not interested in arguing. We will still have the same result in the end even after the arguing. You will still see it they way you see it and I will still see it the way I see it. Waste of time pursuing it. Chris is easy going and I think it takes more than that for him to take offense to. He's a big boy, let him speak for himself. He is definitely entitled to his opinion as am I. Brenda .
