"Low-carb bread" is an oxymoron. Bread is low fat (always less than 10 percent) and low protein ("high protein bread is only 14 percent), so "low carb" bread is at least 75 percent carbs. Carbs spike insulin, and insulin is the troublemaker.
I've experienced it myself and seen it too many times, that a high fat, even high saturated fat diet that is truly low carb (fewer than 100g per day) does indeed lower LDL, increases HDL by a whopping amount, and makes your triglycerides plummet---all good things.
But when dieticians or experts or somebody else gets freaked out and tries to horn in on the success and modify it by allowing more carbs, then things go south again.
My diet is 80 percent fat. My HDL is 74, my LDL is 109, my triglycerides are 40, and I'm 56. These are all HUGE improvements over my scores when I ate oat bran, flax seeds, lots of fruit, and egg whites, and only lean meat. I'm not everybody, but I know half a dozen friend who could say the same.
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