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Plant based low carb diet is healthy, animal low-carb diet is not
The optimal amount of carbohydrates in a standard Western diet is lower than you have been told. In BMJ Public Health, epidemiologists from Harvard calculate this optimum is slightly below 50 percent energy. But an even lower intake of carbohydrates may be fine too. If you replace the carbohydrates with fats and proteins from plants, and not with animal fats and proteins.
Study
Results
That depends entirely on what proteins and fats we have, the researchers discovered. If you replace carbohydrates with animal fats and proteins, your chance of death increases. But if you replace carbohydrates with fats and proteins from plants, your chance of death will decrease.
Conclusion
"Low-carb diets that replace carbohydrates with protein or fat are gaining widespread popularity as a health and weight loss strategy", adds first author Sara Seidelmann.
"However, our data suggests that animal-based low carbohydrate diets, which are prevalent in North America and Europe, might be associated with shorter overall life span and should be discouraged. Instead, if one chooses to follow a low carbohydrate diet, then exchanging carbohydrates for more plant-based fats and proteins might actually promote healthy aging in the long term."
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