Numerous diets affect our lifetsyle. Very rarely do we realize how our diet truly affects our heart. Extreme dieting and also diet fads affect our metabolic rate and in turn the heart rate. One such popular diet is the Atkins diet.

US researchers reported that high-fat Atkins diet can cause long term damage to blood vessels, as well as some of the inflammation linked with heart and artery diseases. The Atkins diet caused the LDL levels to go up by about 7% whereas the Ornish and Beach diets caused LDL to go down by 7-10%.” Low density lipoprotein or LDL is the “bad” cholesterol that clogs blood vessels. Read this article in depth.