Originally Posted by kmckay

Recent clinical studies have shown that lean protein-based diets are more effective in improving blood cholesterol and other blood lipid levels than are low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets. High protein diets have also been shown to lower blood homocysteine levels, another risk factor for heart disease. When nutritionists abandoned meats as part of heart-healthy diets, they unknowingly threw out the baby with the bath water. It was the saturated fat that accompanied the lean protein that was harmful -- not the lean protein itself.

I would keep the meat

Also I eat steak {grassfed} and eggs {omega 3} chicken, turkey, fish with a little fruit and allot of vegies as my carb source and my numbers are way better than my high carb low fat/protien numbers.