The Metabolic Society has weighed in on the latest nonsense about the "dangers" of a low carbohydrate diet. Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to heart disease were used in a small study to "prove" carbohydrate restricted diets may harm arteries. Low-Carb Lifestyle Examiner Jimmy Moore showed in a recent article how the study was faulty. Click below to get the link.
This is the Press Release in which The Metabolic Society reported on this study:
Researchers use mutant mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to heart disease to 'prove' carbohydrate restricted diets may harm arteries.
Defects in ApoE -/- result in defects in processing blood cholesterol. As human studies continue to show the benefits of low carbohydrate diets and the general failure of low-fat diets, it is necessary for the nutritional establishment to find more and more obscure methods of attacking dietary carbohydrate restriction.
One method is to prepare mutant animal models, to use odd diet that humans would never consume, call them low carbohydrate diets and then show some deficit. Because mice are not generally susceptible to atherosclerosis, it was necessary for Foo and coworkers to use an ApoE-/- mutant and a ridiculously high protein diet to vilify low carbohydrate diets which have been a useful alternative for many people suffering from obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Read more and watch the video.
