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Founder: @HELPCareHealth | Formerly @MayoClinic Social Media Director. Personally ✝️ #LCHF #Keto 🥩🥑🥚🥓🥦🥬⛳️🏋️🚣‍♂️
Dec 11, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
THREAD: Is saturated fat in your diet dangerous?

Notes from a @lowcarb_aus video featuring Prof. Jeff Volek reviewing the science:

1. Increased saturated fat in the bloodstream and stored in body tissues is associated with heart disease. 2. DIETARY INTAKE of saturated fat was not associated with heart attacks, stroke or death from cardiac causes, based on three pooled results of 60 cohort studies involving nearly a million total participants.
Nov 24, 2020 22 tweets 9 min read
THREAD: After 4 years on my health journey (and having lost >50 lbs.), here are my top 20 weight loss and #health tips, things I really wish I had known 20 years ago. #LCHF 1. Stop the Sugar - Avoid #fructose, sucrose, lactose or pretty much anything else that ends in -ose. #Sugar causes blood glucose spikes, which raises your levels of insulin, the main fat-storage hormone.