I need some help here. My husband told me tonight that he thought I was trying to kill him with the cheese sauce on the cauliflower& liver fried in lots of butter. SO -I was searching for LC diets & heart disease, looking for studies to show him how LC can be a benefit & came across this. (Link below) I’ve never heard this before & don’t believe LC feeds heart disease. Can u guys calm my nerves?
http://nutritionfacts.org/2015/05/19/low-carb-diets-and-coronary-blood-flow/
The first thing to think about is that he mentions high protein/high fat, not moderate protein. Further, ‘low carb’ is often defined as 50 grams per meal. Nowhere close to keto. Keep calm, keto on and take a look at the FAQ for a lot of links to studies.
The second thing to think about is that Dr. Greger’s main focus is promoting veganism or at least vegetarianism and he sees everything through that lens. He links to studies that most of his readers are not able to verify (data is behind paywalls) and therefore impossible to fact-check. It doesn’t take long reading his stuff to realize that he has an agenda and can’t be trusted to be truthful.
Right on the money. Important to understand someone’s biases, and if you can’t easily read the cites, it’s not worth listening to what they have to say.
Funny this question came up before regarding the study that Dr. Greger bases his blog post on:
It’s important to understand that there are tons of different studies all saying different things and spun per the researchers’ biases. The thing that turns all this Noise into Science is reproducibility. Unless another researcher can duplicate (or even come close to it) Richard Fleming’s claims, they shouldn’t be considered factual. I don’t believe anyone else has been able to reproduce this effect. That by itself is enough for me, but you also might add all the people who are eating more than the average protein who ought to be dropping dead right and left if it’s as bad as the vegan agenda would have you believe.
Thank u all! I think I was upset about my spouse’s comments-& then that was the FIRST result of my search!
Dr. Volek addresses that issue in the next few slides in this video. I highly recommend this and the subsequent one YouTube. https://youtu.be/cSKDsI0i2uM?t=35m21s
What he means on “high fat” is the typical western crap diet that is high in both fat and refined carbs. That’s obviously the worst of all.