I honestly believe those diets low carb diets are unhealthy and dangerous for the reasons I specified in this piece (excessive protein consumption produce toxic nitrogen products and excessive fat consumption is toxic for your liver). The right way to go is to drop refined sugars from your diet altogether but to actually derive most of your energy from complex carbohydrates (whole grain starches). I have had high cholesterol even with reasonably healthy diet until I reduced my fat intake by two thirds. Now its normal. With low carb diet I would either have very high cholesterol or would have to have extreme protein intake, which I don't want to. Only peoples that actually traditionally practiced low carb diets (Inuit population) has special genetic mutation that allow them to metabolize excessive fat. Sorry if this isn't a something you want to hear but I've done some extensive research and experimentation with my own diet so I am not saying it just like that.