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When you eat more healthy fats or protein instead of carbs, it changes the different types of 'good cholesterol' in your blood in ways that affect how your body handles fat, blood clotting, and immunity — like your body has separate teams inside the cholesterol that respond to what you eat.
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Partially Replacing Dietary Carbohydrate With Unsaturated Fat or Protein Shifts Protein-Based HDL Subspecies Toward Lower Coronary Heart Disease Risk
Randomized Controlled Trial
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2026 JanWhen people ate less carbs and more healthy fats or protein, their 'good cholesterol' changed in ways that grouped together by function—like cleaning up fat, stopping blood clots, or fighting infection—showing diet can reorganize how good cholesterol works in the body.
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