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Normal Plasma Cholesterol in an 88-Year-Old Man Who Eats 25 Eggs a Day — Mechanisms of Adaptation
New England Journal of Medicine ^ | March 28, 1991 | Staff

Posted on 06/10/2021 10:46:16 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: BiglyCommentary

They likely have the same gene that I have then... Because I drink a lot too... Either that, or they’re Irish.


61 posted on 06/11/2021 3:03:43 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

Well don’t blame genes. Heavy drinking over time will screw up the bodies insulin mechanisms.


62 posted on 06/11/2021 3:44:59 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Jane Long

We have a gas grill, but it’s rarely used. Insects here in Florida make outside dining annoying................


63 posted on 06/11/2021 5:01:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: Red Badger

Eggstensive report.


64 posted on 06/11/2021 5:03:46 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: BiglyCommentary

Say what you like... My father (drinker, smoker, 3 types of cancer)... Lived until he was 87. My grandfather (drinker, smoker, brain cancer) lived until he was 77. My great-grandfather 83... My great-great-grandfather... 81.

Good genes... You either have them or you don’t... Or you get hit by a bus.


65 posted on 06/11/2021 10:44:46 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: DuncanWaring
"The “Food Pyramid” (and it’s derivatives) are a Crime Against Humanity."

Yes, it's upside down. I had a weightlifter/body builder buddy back in the day I met at one of my career stints. He Ate like a saint, Chicken breast boiled or steamed, cantalope, salad no dressing. I actually ate almost identical in my minimalistic batching-it days, before I met him, I was not a foodie, it was to feed the machine, simple and as high performance as possible. Many years hence and the Keto movement adding the non starchy veggies and limited fruits etc etc. I wasn't far off, neither was my friend.

66 posted on 06/12/2021 2:43:10 PM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: Red Badger

“DIETARY cholesterol increases the plasma level of total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol”

No it doesn’t. It’s been known it doesn’t for 50 years. This is one of those medical old-wives tales that won’t die.

Your body has a mechanism for regulating cholesterol in your blood.

1. If you don’t eat any cholesterol, your body starts making it, and will continue to make it till your blood cholesterol level is at its preferred level.

2. If you eat cholesterol, your body will reduce its production of cholesterol to bring your blood cholesterol level in line.

3. If you eat too much cholesterol, your body will stop making cholesterol and start excreting cholesterol to bring your blood cholesterol to your body’s preferred level.

Ancel Keys, the father of the lipid hypothesis, said this in the 1960’s. It’s not new science.


67 posted on 09/08/2021 4:24:25 PM PDT by Brookhaven (The dystopian future is now!)
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To: Red Badger

Chickens went into hiding whenever he drove up to their farms........


68 posted on 09/08/2021 4:28:30 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Glad2bnuts
For years now my breakfast has consisted of three eggs over easy in Kerrygold butter with berries swirled into high-fat (no added sugar) Greek-style yogurt.

My cholesterol levels are close to ideal.

Most people do not understand that dietary cholesterol does not necessarily give you "high" cholesterol. In fact, in the absence of dietary cholesterol, your body will manufacture its own cholesterol, and not necessarily the good kind.

People who order egg whites thinking they are healthier are denying themselves the most nutritious and tastiest part of the egg for no good reason.

69 posted on 09/08/2021 4:31:51 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Demiurge2
Man, I bet there are some smelly ...

At 88 the guy is probably the only male in the nursing home.The gals won't care. If they have covid they won't mind! Even if they don't have covid they won't mind. He'll have more dates than many here on FR.

70 posted on 09/08/2021 4:46:06 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Demiurge2
Man, I bet there are some smelly ...

At 88 the guy is probably the only male in the nursing home.The gals won't care. If they have covid they won't mind! Even if they don't have covid they won't mind. He'll have more dates than many here on FR.

71 posted on 09/08/2021 4:46:10 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: lee martell

These eggs are ruining my life, is probably a function of everyone telling him his diet was bad for him and would kill him. I can easily eat a dozen eggs a day, and eat at least 3 a day for 28 years.


72 posted on 09/10/2021 11:24:19 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Red Badger

I would eat a large pepperoni pizza by myself.
And other times I would eat a whole sub. Extra mayo of course.
This is back before everything got small.


73 posted on 09/10/2021 11:32:59 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden)
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