Why eating lots of carbs might raise your blood fat
The effect of sucrose content in high and low carbohydrate diets on plasma glucose, insulin, and lipid responses in hypertriglyceridemic humans.
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When people with high blood fats ate diets with 60% carbs, their blood fat levels went up, especially after meals. But if they kept sugar intake the same, the rise was smaller.
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When people with high blood fats ate diets with 60% carbs, their blood fat levels went up, especially after meals. But if they kept sugar intake the same, the rise was smaller.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
Max 546 / 90
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Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, minimizing bias. Considered the gold standard for testing whether an intervention causes an effect.
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Consuming large amounts of carbohydrates leads to prolonged higher levels of glucose in the blood because the body converts carbohydrates to glucose faster than it can remove it from the bloodstream.
For people with naturally high triglyceride levels, keeping sugar intake steady at 13% of daily calories while eating a high-carb diet leads to a smaller rise in blood triglycerides than increasing sugar intake to 15% when eating the same high-carb diet.
For people with naturally high triglyceride levels, eating a diet where 60% of calories come from carbohydrates leads to higher blood glucose and insulin levels after meals, but does not change blood glucose or insulin levels when fasting.
For people with a genetic tendency to have high triglycerides, eating a diet where 60% of calories come from carbohydrates raises fasting triglyceride levels and lowers HDL cholesterol, without changing total cholesterol levels.