Carbs and Cholesterol
Carbs may explain ethnic variations in cholesterol | Science&Health | Reuters.co.uk
Previous research has identified ethnic differences in cholesterol and other blood fat levels that couldn’t be explained by genes, obesity, lifestyle factors or diet, Merchant and his team note, but these analyses usually looked at dietary fat, not carbohydrate consumption. When calories from carbohydrates replace energy from fat in a person’s diet, both LDL and HDL cholesterol levels fall while triacylglycerol levels rise, the researchers explain.
For the uninitiated, lowering the HDL (good) cholesterol is bad.