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If you want to lower your risk of heart disease, you're better off with a low-fat-rather than a low-carb-diet, according to a new study published in the February edition of the journal Hypertension.
Compared with low-fat diets that provide 30 percent of the calories as fat, per the American Heart Association's recommendations, low-carbohydrate, Atkins'-like diets are significantly higher in total grams of fat, protein, dietary cholesterol, and saturated fats. While a low-carbohydrate diet may result in weight loss and improvement in blood pressure, according to researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, the higher fat content may ultimately be more detrimental to heart health.
Besides putting dieters at an increased risk of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), low-carb diets were also found to contain significantly less daily folic acid, which is thought to help reduce the likelihood of heart disease, than their low-fat counterparts. ::Newswise
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