Women Experience Artery Flexibility While on a Low-Carb Diet
Studies show that in as little as 4 weeks you can improve your artery flexibility.
There used to be a commercial on TV that showed a woman and a man making changes to their diet and sharing their results. They cut out sodas and the man lost a ton of weight while the woman only lost a few pounds, then they started to add exercise with him losing more weight. Finally, they cut out carbs and surprise had the same results. That experience can be super frustrating, but the good news about starting a low-carb diet, even if men typically experience more weight-loss is women tend to experience more artery flexibility.
Think of your arteries as a rubber hose, if you pour water through it the hose bends and twists slowing the progress of the water down compared to pouring water through a plastic pipe. Believe it or not, we want flexible, pliable, and resilient arteries to slowly expand as blood makes its way through the body. As we age our arteries stiffen, this occurrence is increased by obesity and metabolic syndrome. A study out of the University of Missouri followed 20 middle age men and women and for two weeks fed them a low carb diet then offered them a meal plan for the following two weeks for them to adhere to. They found that while men lost 6.3 percent of their body fat compared to 4.4 percent by women, that women had reduced their blood flow by 1 meter per second. While this study is small and maybe won't give us women quite the weight loss we desire, this small change in diet can help our health in other ways, and in such a short amount of time.
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