According to a new study, the high fat, low carbohydrate Atkins diet is heart burdening during the maintenance phase. The maintenance phase comes after required weight loss achievement.
This recent study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the time span was January 2006 to December 2006.

Involving 18 healthy people with an average body mass index; BMI, the study was aimed to know the changes in cholesterol levels and cardiac conditions.

The BMI of the participants was 22.6 i.e. 18.5 to 24.9, which is thought as normal weight. To conclude the research, participants took different diets randomly ordered in 4 weeks.

The diets were given as Atkins: 50 percent fat, South Beach: 30 percent fat and Ornish: 10 percent fat. At the beginning of the research and at the end of each 4 week diet, participants were examined for cholesterol levels and other cardiac risk factors.

A new study has found statin drugs, used to lower cholesterol levels and thwart heart problem, helpful to minimize the risk of developing perilous blood clots which can stay in the legs or lungs.

The researchers observed that Crestor cut the risk of developing blood clots in nearly half of the participants with low cholesterol.

But it was also noticed to higher the inflammation which took part in many diseases. It is not known whether the beneficial outcomes were due to reduction in cholesterol or CRP, since Crestor was found to perform the both functions.

Many doctors have been reluctant to the expanding use of statin in the people with normal cholesterol because many out of them would have to be treated to avert a particular additional case.

CHICAGO – According to new study about 50% of obese adult have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and astoundingly the percentage of slim people suffer from some of the ills related with obesity is also the same.

The first national estimate supports the argument that you can be bulky but still fit, or at least healthier than has been supposed.

The author Mary Fran Sowers, a University of Michigan obesity researcher said “the results also show that stereotypes about body size can be ambiguous and that even less voluptuous people can have risk factors commonly associated with obesity.”