Increased blood viscosity is the only biological parameter that has been linked with all of the other major cardiovascular risk factors, including high blood pressure, elevated LDL cholesterol, low HDL, type-II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, smoking, age, and male gender [1].
When dealing with diabetes, you can safely follow the Slim-Fast diet as long as you are being closely monitored by your physician. However, as a liquid meal replacement diet, Slim-Fast does not teach you how to control portions or carbohydrates once you go back to eating regular food for all of your meals.This may make it harder for you to maintain your weight loss and control blood sugars.owever, as a liquid meal replacement diet, Slim-Fast does not teach you how to control portions or carbohydrates once you go back to eating regular food for all of your meals. This may make it harder for you to maintain your weight loss and control blood sugars.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lists some Slim Fast products in its database of contaminated weight loss products. The FDA reported the presence of sibutramine in some of the samples it tested. Sibutramine is a substance that may cause undesirable side effects in some people.