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Low-carb diets exceed nutrient needs and promote heart health
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Low-carb diets exceed nutrient needs and promote heart health by improving key dietary ratios
Discover how strategic low-carb meal plans not only meet your daily nutrient needs but also enhance heart health by optimizing vital fatty acid and sodium-potassium balances, challenging conventional dietary wisdom.
An article published in Frontiers in Nutrition provides a detailed overview of the nutritional adequacy of three low-carbohydrate diets with differing carbohydrate content.
Background
The popularity of low-carbohydrate diets is increasing sharply worldwide, especially among middle-aged women. Low-carbohydrate diets contain less than 130 grams of carbohydrates per day, or 10–25% of energy from carbohydrates. Similarly, very low-carbohydrate diets contain 20–50 grams of carbohydrate or less than 10% of carbohydrate-derived energy per day.
A large pool of studies has found that low-carbohydrate diets are clinically effective in treating various chronic metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
A disparity in the prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases has been observed among people belonging to historically marginalized racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds. As noted in the study, well-planned low-carbohydrate dietary plans can serve as an effective intervention to address such health inequity.
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for total carbohydrates is 130 grams per day, estimated based on the average amount of glucose the brain utilizes daily. This standard has been a significant barrier to including low-carbohydrate diets in current dietary guidelines despite clinical evidence supporting their benefits.
In this study, scientists have estimated the macro- and micronutrient content of three 7-day low-carbohydrate diet plans to explore the nutritional adequacy of different forms of carbohydrate restriction.
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