Total carbs or net carbs? I am all for anything that works for the individual, but I fear that this kind of focus on micromanagement may scare some people off.
Read More »High Blood Pressure and the Low Carbohydrate Diet
There are many things that happen to your body to cause your blood pressure to increase. I have been asking this question of physicians that I know, and the consensus is that they feel that obesity is a much greater risk factor than any diet. They would prefer that their patients lost the weight on a low carbohydrate diet and just monitored their blood pressure to make sure that it did not get dangerously high. There was also a general consensus that they actually saw their patients' blood pressures decrease when they followed a low carbohydrate regime.
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