{"id":16481,"date":"2017-11-10T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16481"},"modified":"2018-06-26T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T10:51:36","slug":"low-carb-diet-weight-loss-reduction-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16481","title":{"rendered":"Low carb diet for weight loss and reduction in cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is generally believed that diets less in carbohydrates component lead to weight loss, but this is not healthy. Some feel it is as a gimmick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">However, a recent research conducted by the researchers at Tulane University, Louisiana, suggested that a low carbohydrate diet is more effective in losing weight and decreasing blood pressure as compared to a diet less in fat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For the study, the participants were divided in groups of two. One group received a diet less in carbohydrates by about 40 gm and other received a diet less in fat by around 30%. After one year, it was found that the group that received low-carb diet lost 8 pounds more than the other group, who received low-fat diet. Further, there was a significant decrease in bad cholesterol in participants on low-carbohydrate diet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">You can choose low carb diet if you want to try out this method. Consume non-starchy vegetables and berries as far as fruits are concerned. Cutting out on foods containing sugar and white flour would help as they contain lot of carbs. People on low-carb diet can get their calories from healthy fats like olive oil rather than saturated fats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is generally believed that diets less in carbohydrates component lead to weight loss, but this is not healthy. Some feel it is as a gimmick. However, a recent research conducted by the researchers at Tulane University, Louisiana, suggested that a low carbohydrate diet is more effective in losing weight and decreasing blood pressure as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[893],"class_list":["post-16481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-health-news","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}