A WORD ON SAFETY

Doctors have been concerned about the safety of this diet for hundreds of years.The criticism of recent generations of doctors has been that a diet so high in fat will increase your risk of heart disease by increasing cholesterol.That doesn't happen. Several recent studies have examined this issue, and it turns out that while LDL (bad) cholesterol stays about the same,HDL (good) cholesterol increases-and that reduces your risk of heart disease.And triglycerides,which increase risk of heart disease,decrease dramatically on this diet. In my own research,we looked at more than five hundred diets with diets that restricted fats or calories.We were particularly interested in the effects of a low-carb diet cholesterol.We found that no average those on low-carb diets had no change in their total cholesterol.So,while many doctors remain suspicious of this diet,the research suggest that for most people this diet is safe.