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moreLow-carbohydrate slimming diets may damage arteries and increase the risk of heart attacks, research suggests.
'Health risk' from low-carb diets
Scientists believe cutting out the carbs by following Atkins-style diets impairs the regrowth and repair of blood vessels.
The discovery was made by a US team whose leader was himself on a low-carb diet until he saw the results of the study...
...Study leader Professor Anthony Rosenzweig, Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said: "Examinations of the animals' bone marrow and peripheral blood showed that the measures of EPC cells dropped fully 40% among the mice on the low-carb diet - after only two weeks.
Although the precise nature and role of these cells is still being worked out - and caution is always warranted in extrapolating from effects in mice to a clinical situation - these results succeeded in getting me off the low-carb diet."
Not very surprising doing anything to extremes is bad for you, and diets are no different.
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