Alyne wrote:
>Todd:
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> I beleive you stated that a low carb diet that doesn't avoid saturated fat is the best way to raise HDL. Do you have a reference for that? My husband is trying to increase his HDL.
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> Thanks.
> Alyne
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This article,
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1368980,
which we were recently discussing, might interest him.
For the record, when I started paleo my HDL was at the lower limit of
acceptable for me: 32 mg/dl. Last time I had it checked it was 50
mg/dl. That's not stellar, but it's an improvement at least.
Personally, I think there is now sufficient evidence that HDL is not
irrelevant to health but is, indeed, "good" cholesterol. A year or so
ago, experimental intervention studies of "HDL therapy" showed reveral
of atherosclerosis. Gaziano's 1997 study showed that the strongest
predictor of heart attack was the HDL:triglyeride ratio.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/8/2520
Todd Moody
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