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.
Slim-Fast contains fat-free milk as the first ingredient, thus, the protein source is whey and casein. In addition to that, Slim-Fast shakes contain additional protein in the form of milk protein concentrate and soy protein isolate. Depending on the variety, Slim-Fast shakes offer between 10 g to 20 g of protein per 325 ml serving. Carbohydrate Slim-Fast shakes, on average, contain about 25 g of carbohydrates (18g sugars, or 4.5 tsp.).