{"id":3723,"date":"2013-07-19T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:24:40","slug":"low-carb-diet-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3723","title":{"rendered":"Low Carb Diet Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d noted a few days ago that I&#8217;d changed to a low carb diet for the past year. As it happened, I had to have a physical so I could participate in a Scout camp with the boy in a few weeks.  They performed some simple blood tests, including checking my cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get any numbers (frankly- they&#8217;d be meaningless to me) but I thought it worth noting that after a year of higher fat, higher protein, lower carb eating my cholesterol levels are &#8220;outstanding&#8221; with lots of good cholesterol.  I also had excellent blood sugar levels and completely normal liver and kidney functions.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, I would have had something to compare against from when I started the diet change, to see if these numbers started trending in a particular direction. Even so, I think it&#8217;s encouraging that after a year, I haven&#8217;t messed myself up with a &#8220;crazy&#8221; diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d noted a few days ago that I&#8217;d changed to a low carb diet for the past year. As it happened, I had to have a physical so I could participate in a Scout camp with the boy in a few weeks. They performed some simple blood tests, including checking my cholesterol levels. I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[356,347],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-cholesterol","tag-low-carb-diet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}