Low-carb fairy tales

Conclusion: Premarin INCREASED breast cancer, INCREASED endometrial cancer, INCREASED cardiovascular death, even accelerated dementia. And this has been the story over and over again: Conclusions drawn in observational studies have proven to be flat wrong about 4 times out of 5. This hasn’t stopped people like Frank Sacks and Walter Willett, through the observational Physicians’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study to, time and again, declare observational findings as fact. Unfortunately, even the USDA buys this observational fiction, incorporating the findings of observational studies in their dietary guidelines. So the observational data reported in this study cannot be used to draw conclusions. It would be nice if we could refute the claims being made with randomized, prospective data, but there are none. However, there are abundant data that look at various biomarkers that demonstrate the metabolic advantages of low-carb eating. Among improved biomarkers are: Reduced HbA1c, fasting glucose, insulin, reduced insulin resistance Reduced triglycerides (due to lack of carbs/sugars to fuel liver de novo lipogenesis, i.e., conversion of sugars to triglycerides ) Reduction or elimination of small LDL particles Reduced severity of postprandial (after-meal) lipoproteins (especially VLDL) Reduced blood pressure Weight loss including from visceral fat Reduced inflammatory markers such as c-reactive protein, IL-2, TNF-alpha Reversal of fatty liver Low-fat diets, in comparis...
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