Sun, Dec-10-06, 11:42
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Posts: 25,866
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Plan: DDF
Stats: 202/185.4/179
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Progress: 72%
Location: San Diego, CA
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Originally Posted by kaypeeoh
We're all experiments of one. I was on a strict Atkins Diet and my cholesterol went to 280. If carb is the culprit, it suggests I was making excess carb through gluconeogenesis. When I switched to the Zone Diet my cholesterol dropped to 160.
Comparing the two diets, Atkins allowed real gluttony on my part. The Zone was pretty strict about what I could eat and how much. It allowed less food than a CR diet would. At 180 pounds (81kg) I ate less than 1000 calories per day. The Atkins diet had a lot of fat in the meat I was eating. The Zone diet had little meat and what it allowed was extra lean.
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Perhaps you kicked in the protectiveness of a CR diet on the Zone? If you'd been that low calorie on Atkins, I wonder what would have happened?
My own Atkins experience was the triglycerides dropped hugely, and they were a problem before, LDL increased slightly and HDL increased a lot. |