Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by cageface on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:06AM
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The new, counter intuitive idea that saturated fat is harmless or even healthy is built on lies and bad science, promoted by people with a lot of money to gain if they can confuse people about this.
https://thescienceofnutrition.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-b...
Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by toasterlovin on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:24AM
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All diet recommendations are based on bad science because all nutrition science is bad science. That includes whatever your preferred diet is.
Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by cgh on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:56AM
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That guy has a serious axe to grind and isn’t a credible source.
Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by perl4ever on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:42PM
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But what you are responding to doesn't say "saturated fat is harmless or even healthy". It says there is little saturated fat in eggs.
Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by cageface on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:31PM
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Eggs are very high in cholesterol, which is mentioned explicitly 136 times in the link I provided.
Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by coldtea on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:06AM
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Which is irrelevant, because the cholesterol we already have by other means is much much higher.
Considering eggs a problem for that (their cholesterol content) is like having a program that takes 20 minutes to run, and trying to optimize a routine that only accounts for 5 seconds of the overall time.
Re:Associations of egg consumption with cardiovascular disease
by cageface on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:14AM
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Baseline cholesterol levels are genetically determined, it's true, but diet is far from irrelevant. A cholesterol-rich diet can easily push your overall cholesterol level above that baseline into the danger zone. This has been verified in numerous gold standard direct intervention studies. Anecdotally I have several friends that have brought high cholesterol levels down through diet far enough that they didn't have to take statins.
Most of the studies that have claimed to show that diet doesn't raise cholesterol have involved populations of people that already have abnormally high cholesterol from a bad diet (i.e. the typical American).
Important points summarized here:
"Back then, we knew that egg yolks had lots of cholesterol, and we knew that high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood increased the risk of cardiovascular disease. So it seemed logical that avoiding cholesterol in the diet made sense.
Since then, however, research has shown that most of the cholesterol in our body is made by our liver-it doesn't come from cholesterol we eat. The liver is stimulated to make cholesterol primarily by saturated fat and trans fat in our diet, not dietary cholesterol. But a large egg contains little saturated fat-about 1.5 grams (g). And research has confirmed that eggs also contain many healthy nutrients: lutein and zeaxanthin, which are good for the eyes; choline, which is good for the brain and nerves; and various vitamins (A, B, and D). In fact, just one large egg contains 270 international units (IU) of vitamin A and 41 IU of vitamin D. One large egg also contains about 6 g of protein and 72 calories.
The evidence that eating an egg a day is safe for most people comes from huge studies-many conducted here at Harvard Medical School-that have followed hundreds of thousands of people over decades."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/are-eggs-risky-f...
Not to mention:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/saturated-fat-completely-safe-acc...