Swedish Study ABC News Report Low Carb Diet Increases risk of heart disease
[B]Atkins-Like Diets may increase the risk of heart disease! [/B] was the headline.
[url=http://abcnews.go.com/Health/low-carbohydrate-high-protein-diets-increase-cardiovascular-disease/comments?type=story&id=16655359]Comments: Low Carbohydrate, High Protein Diets May Increase Cardiovascular Disease Risk - ABC News[/url]
[B]Amazingly the news reporter reported a 5% increase in risk, but lets say that the researchers and the reporter actually failed at math! lol.. here's why.[/B]
4 or 5 more cases out of 10,000 isn't 5% that is .05% or a tenth of a half of a percent. In the study 1270 of 43,000 women studied got heart disease total. So this includes the group that wasn't on the low carb diet. So, 2.7% of all women develop heart disease total and .05% of women on a low carb diet got heart disease. The study proves the opposite!
[B]A LOW FAT DIET IS 58.06 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO CAUSE HEART DISEASE[/B]. could have been another headline. Lets do the math. As the article suggested A total of 1270 women in the study of 43,0000 developed heart disease. 5 out of every 10,000 women on a low carbohydrate diet developed heart disease so that's 21.5 women out of the 43,000 on a low carb diet developed heart disease as apposed to 1270-21.5 (total low carb dieters) = 1248.5 women out of 43,000 women on no diet at all developing heart disease. 21.5/1248.5 or 21.5 to 1248.5 who observed no diet are 58 times more likely to have a heart attack on no particular diet. I can't believe that no one in this article did the math. If anything this should show people that it is unquestionable that a low carb diet is more healthy.
Out of embarrassment the writer of the ABC news should be submitting a new article.