Low Carbohydrate Diets Are Unsafe And Should Be Avoided Study Suggests
While research is mixed some evidence suggests that low carb diets that focus on animal foods may lead to higher death rates from heart disease cancer and all causes.
Low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should be avoided study suggests. The findings suggest that low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should not be recommended quartiles and extremely low hazard ratios. A large study concludes that a low intake of carbs raises the risk of premature mortality as well as mortality from several chronic illnesses. Low carbohydrate diets might be useful in the short term to lose weight lower blood pressure and improve blood glucose control but our study suggests that in the long term they are linked with an increased risk of death from any cause and deaths due to cardiovascular disease cerebrovascular disease and cancer. We found that people who consumed a low carbohydrate diet were at greater risk of premature.
Compared to those in the highest carbohydrate group those who ate the lowest carbohydrates had a 32 percent higher risk of all cause death over six years. Study author professor maciej banach of the medical university of lodz. Our study highlights an unfavourable association between low carbohydrate diets and total and cause specific death based on individual data and pooled results of previous studies. They furthermore state that their results were confirmed by a pooled meta analysis of 7 prospective cohort studies with 447 506 participants and which had an average follow up of 15 6 years which indicated that risk of death from all causes resulting from low carbohydrate diets was 15 higher from cardiovascular disease was 13 higher and from cancer was 8 higher compared to high carbohydrate diets.
These diets should be avoided this study examined the relationship between low carbohydrate diets all cause death deaths from coronary heart disease and cancer in 24 825 people. These diets should be avoided obesity is a major health issue worldwide and raises the risk of several chronic conditions including cardiovascular disease hypertension type 2 diabetes and. Low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should be avoided according to a large study presented today at esc congress 2018. Low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should be avoided according to a large study presented today at esc congress 2018.