4 ways low carbohydrate diet

Various kinds of low-carb diet as done by Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan is loved today. This diet is quite tight in carbohydrate intake per day, and what Anies does is avoid rice.

Diets such as Paleo diet (high protein low carbo), Atkins diet (carb counting), and the most famous is ketogenik diet (high fat low carbo).
Interested to undergo this low-carbohydrate diet? Here's a list of benefits that can convince you!

1. Lower blood sugar and insulin
Blood sugar and insulin levels play a major role in the onset of diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes. When we eat carbohydrates, they break down into glucose in our digestion.

Glucose then enters the blood and increases blood sugar. If the blood sugar is too high, they become toxic and the body responds by releasing the hormone insulin.

"I deal a lot with diabetes patients through low-carbo approaches, they should lower their insulin dose by as much as 50 percent on the first day," said Dr. Eric Westman, a doctor and a ketogenic practitioner from Duke University.

2. Lowering blood pressure
Hypertension or elevated blood pressure is an important risk factor of many serious diseases. That is like heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and much more.

For those of you who want to avoid a series of diseases, or indeed have high risk factors, try a low-carb diet. Because many studies show that reducing carbohydrate intake can also reduce the risk of these diseases.

 read too : 5 Mistakes Frequent Diet Doers

3.Mampu overcome metabolic syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is a medical condition that is strongly associated with the risk of diabetes and heart disease, as quoted from the Health Line.

This condition is a combination of a set of symptoms, such as high triglycerides, blood sugar, and blood pressure, low HDL levels, and obesity in the abdomen.

The good news is: all these symptoms can be fixed with a low carbo diet, you know

4. Improve LDL cholesterol pattern
Why, why even increase it? Make no mistake, Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) although called bad cholesterol, can change if it is set 'molecule.

The scientists found that LDL type and particle size are important. Those with small particles have a high risk of heart disease, whereas those with large particles are low in risk.

The low-carbo diet converts the LDL particles from small to large, and also lowers the amount of LDL particles floating around the bloodstream.

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