Do you find yourself wondering about the good diet high cholesterol relationship? For decades we’ve been warned about eating saturated fats. If you’re over 40 you might recall all the foods that are “bad”:

• Egg yolks
• Butter
• Fatty meats
• Fatty fish
• Deep fried battered anything

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“So What Can We Eat Anymore?”

 

I had a friend ask me that exact question thirty years ago. And now, our choices have narrowed since, in some ways.

 

Yet we have been re-educated to learn that egg yolks give us essential fatty acids – the kind our body can’t make from what we eat.

 

One caveat is, keep the yolk soft. The enzymes needed to digest the nutrients in the egg are built in, but they cannot be overcooked or they are rendered ineffective.

 

Butter also gives us essential fatty acids. And, if we choose pasture-fed butter sources, we also get a better ratio of omega6 to omega 3 fatty acids.

 

Fatty meats can be healthy. Pasture fed meat sources, similar to butter (cheese, yogurt, sour cream et al) provide us with a healthy omega6/omega3 balance.

 

This doesn’t mean you can chow down on chunks of fat, but you don’t have to obsessively trim every bit of it off your steaks, roasts and chops.

 

Fatty wild caught cold water fish are highly recommended for getting healthy oils into the body.

 

A good, purified fish oil supplement is Krill Oil. There is one I recommend because of the integrity of the brand, Primal Force.

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Deep fried battered foods are still not recommended. Why?

• Too much of a good thing, in general
• Most fats get damaged in high heat and become trans fat, which in turn damage your body chemistry.
• Deep fried battered sweets are double jeopardy, and are highly inflammatory

 

Go ahead and have a donut with your coffee once a month. If you’re ingesting some healthy omega 3 oils that day, it’s not destructive.

 

What About Your Cholesterol Levels?

 

Cholesterol is associated with heart disease, arterial disease and death. And there is Bad cholesterol and Good cholesterol to keep track of.

 

Yet a recent study states this:

 

…”a diet composed of fewer carbs and higher amounts of saturated fat might actually have health benefits outside of weight loss — better blood cholesterol levels.”

 

The Stanford Medicine article is here.

 

” If you or your patient is more successful at losing weight with a low-carb diet, you might not have to worry so much about the percent of saturated fat.” (from the same article).

 

What Is The Worst Thing About A Weight Loss Diet

 

Being hungry. Would you agree? Isn’t it the most glaring-in-your-face side effect ?

 

Just hanging on till that next meal. Chewing gum, drinking copious amounts of black decaf coffee or tea.

 

Sound familiar?

 

One really excellent thing about the low carb high protein diets is that they are not low fat diets. Fats are allowed, and that’s why you want some knowledge about healthy fats.

 

Fats are filling. They take longer to digest, maybe even until a half hour before your next meal.

 

And, fat is fuel.

 

A Keto diet is a high fat diet. Much fat required! And, you must stay in ketosis.

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However, a low carb diet is simply low carb. You may or may not be striving for a high fat keto diet.

 

 

In a low carb meal plan, you would replace crackers with walnuts, for a snack. You would be consuming omega 3 fatty acids, healthy oils for energy and mental clarity.

 

Fat Burning And Muscle Building Exercise Overview

 

Your body will always choose carbohydrates first, to burn as fuel.

 

So what if you don’t eat any? In quantity, that is.Vegetables and meats contain carbohydrates, but not like bread and potatoes.

 

Your body will then burn fat for fuel. Those curves and bubbles you don’t want, right?

 

Yet here is why extremely low fat/no fat diets are dangerous.

 

You also need high quality fat and fatty acids for brain functions which regulate your endocrine functions, via hormones.

 

Hormones are made from the fats you eat. Dopamine, serotonin, just to name the two well known brain chemicals. Vital, to maintain optimism and energy in this increasingly challenging world, don’t you think?

 

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This book has much information about a keto lifestyle that is quite restricted. It is quite popular however.

 

Next, how do you work out best to build muscle?

 

Pace Express is a leading exercise technique. The great thing is you can choose the exercises you prefer to do.

 

You choose your intensity, duration, and whether to use equipment or not. How flexible is that!

 

Short bursts of high intensity exercise trigger your muscles to build muscle, afterwards. Recovery time is important, so you don’t need to work out every day.

 

Here is an example of a person choosing their own pace for recovering muscle and lung capacity, after not working out for years.

 

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They start with walking. Warm up is essential, so this person would walk for at least five minutes.

 

Next, they would walk as briskly as they’re capable, for 30 seconds. Then resume walking for 90 seconds, catching their breath.

 

Repeat two more times.

 

Do three times a week. Every one, two, or three weeks, they would increase the duration of the brisk walking.

 

At their own pace. That is why this regimen works.

 

Muscle building, muscle strength and lung capacity all gradually increase.

 The Low Carb Diet High Protein Does Not Equal High Cholesterol

This is quite good news, isn’t it?

 

You can proceed with a low carb diet, either gradually cutting down, or the de rigueur cold turkey approach. You may need your health practitioner’s advice in how to start, depending on your health and medical history.

 

I think it’s beneficial to get the general blood panels done if you have the cash or insurance in place.

 

Have you tried this type of diet, or any diets recently? We’d love to hear your views on the subject. How about exercise? What’s your favorite to date? Do you try new ones often?

 

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