After following Evolutionary Fitness for just over a year, I decided to go get my cholesterol levels checked to see what the effects were on my lipids. The last time I had my lipid levels checked was a few months before I started doing Evolutionary Fitness, so I figured this would be a good time to see what happens after following a supposedly “low-carb” diet for about a year. The results?
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Test Total Cholesterol: Triglycerides(lower is better): HDL(higher is better): LDL: VLDL(lower is beter): Chol/HDL(lower is better): HDL/Triglycerides(higher is better): |
Before EF: 143 41 37 98 8 3.8 .9 |
1 year EF: 169 35 52 110 7 3.2 1.48 |
Not that I had bad numbers before, but these are pretty remarkable changes. My numbers improved, significantly, in every possible way. My HDL levels – which were a bit low – increased by 50%, while triglycerides and VLDL cholesterol dropped. The ratio of HDL/Triglycerides is probably the best indicator of cardiac health (with total cholesterol levels being more or less irrelevant) and a ratio of 1.5-2.0 basically brings your risk of a heart problems and strokes down to 0. [1]
Granted, I’m only 21 and I could probably eat fried noodles and Crisco everyday for the next 15-20 years before experiencing severe heart problems, but the point of this test was to see the effects of a diet that is deemed by the government to be bad for you. Despite what the USDA says, these results are exactly what I expected. People who do the Evolutionary Fitness diet/Paleo-diet always have results like this. Maybe it’s time for people to rethink the supposed benefits of the government-recommended diet and perhaps also ask why government is in the business of health in the first place, when they can’t seem to get their recommendations right.
