This has been in the news a lot in the last year or two. I wish the late Dr. Atkins were still around. That dude deserves apologies from millions who vilified him for decades. When I cut way back on starches/carbs of all sorts I feel SO much better, my digestion is greatly improved, and I drop weight without significant effort. If I could go full-out ketogenic and still run and bike I would. I tried it for a couple of months after I busted my wrist in Nov. '12, but I couldn't make my body do any endurance stuff on super low carbs. I'm so all-or-nothing, unfortunately. I eat FAR more carbs than I need and it glues itself right to my butt, thighs, and upper arms.

DH's family is full of people who have horrible cholesterol and triglycerides, in spite of decades of dietary fat phobia (avoiding egg yolks and eating margarine and fat free cheese...blech!!). My family never jumped on that bandwagon. WI people don't eat crap like that, heh. We all have great blood work...sure, some of that's genetic, but we never embraced the sorts of "healthy" foods that are now being implicated in decades of increased #s of diabetes and ill health.