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I ate 700 eggs in a month as an experiment - what happened to my health went against everything I'd been told
Daily Mail ^ | 24 September 2024 | Luke Andrews

Posted on 09/24/2024 5:32:48 PM PDT by mairdie

Nick Norwitz, a doctorate student at Harvard University, found that contrary to the beliefs of many experts, his cholesterol levels actually dropped. After the month-long experiment that saw him eat the equivalent of 24 eggs per day his low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels, or 'bad' cholesterol, fell by 18 percent.

Experts have demonized cholesterol in eggs for decades, warning that eating them may cause a surge in LDL levels and raise the risk of complications.

Dr Norwitz has a PhD in human brain metabolism from the University of Oxford and is completing his medical doctorate at Harvard University.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; cholesterol; dietandcuisine; eggs; godsgravesglyphs; hdl; ldl
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To: BipolarBob

APOB is what my husband is watching


21 posted on 09/24/2024 5:47:26 PM PDT by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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To: PROCON

McDonalds? It takes five minutes to make a scrambled egg on a toasted muffin or bread. McDonalds? Really? Save some money.


22 posted on 09/24/2024 5:48:32 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Leep

Back to butter because the fake stuff makes me sick.


23 posted on 09/24/2024 5:49:50 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Fungi

The person hates to cook, not about the money.


24 posted on 09/24/2024 5:51:51 PM PDT by madison10
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A neighbor couple is 96 and 95 years old. They eat eggs daily for breakfast, plus have eggs several other times a week (deviled eggs, egg salad, avolemono soup, etc.). Neither of them take any medications.


25 posted on 09/24/2024 5:52:56 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: laplata

I always get the blue and green ones from a local egg gettin’ place.


26 posted on 09/24/2024 5:53:29 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: BipolarBob

My wife had a heart attack a month ago. Her LDLs are 72. HDLs 52. Total cholesterol 193. So much for low cholesterol being safe.


27 posted on 09/24/2024 5:56:36 PM PDT by redangus ( )
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To: BipolarBob

Basically.

The correlation between plaque and cholesterol is no different than that of carbon dioxide and atmospheric temperatures:

It’s anti science BS, but try telling that to someone who’s been on statins for 20 years...

This guy could be the one to drive a stake in the lipid hypothesis once & for all...if he can find a house of study & funding in a hostile environment deeply immersed in the Medical Industrial Complex...the same one which drove the plandemic and feeds all medical fears - heart disease, alzheimer’s, cancer, ‘disease x’, etc. - today.


28 posted on 09/24/2024 5:57:09 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: goodnesswins

Well that is a much more accurate measurement instead a broad LDL number. The LDL is incomplete because of the different types of LDLs. Of course most doctors don’t know this (mine doesn’t). It is particle size that causes problems. The smaller the LDL, the more likely it will stick to an artery wall. Statins do nothing for these because statins gobble the larger puffy benign LDL particles.


29 posted on 09/24/2024 5:57:37 PM PDT by BipolarBob (You may call me blind, deaf and dumb but I'm a Pinball Wizard.)
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To: mairdie; ConservativeMind; gleeaikin; Tilted Irish Kilt

Interesting health ping.


30 posted on 09/24/2024 5:57:39 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: mairdie

Most of the cholesteral in the egg is the yolk, but I have read that by eating the whole egg digesting and using the egg’s cholesteral is aided, as opposed to only eating the yolk. And agg whites alone have much less nutritional benefit:

Vitamins: The yolk contains all of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as thiamin (vitamin B1) and vitamin B12.
Minerals: The yolk contains most of the phosphorus, iron, zinc, copper, and manganese.
Antioxidants: The yolk contains lutein and zeaxanthin, which protect the eyes from harmful sunlight and reduce the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration.
Choline and selenium: The yolk contains choline and selenium.
Protein: The yolk contains almost half of an egg’s protein.
Fat: The yolk contains most of an egg’s fat, which is mostly unsaturated and helps the body absorb other nutrients.
Calories: The yolk contains three-fourths of an egg’s calories.


31 posted on 09/24/2024 5:59:27 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Disambiguator

I can remember my older brother teaching me how to eat eggs raw...through a tiny pin hole. I was a dumb 6 year old girl!!


32 posted on 09/24/2024 5:59:49 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: waterhill
I always get the blue and green ones from a local egg gettin’ place.

So you're the green eggs and ham guy that book was about.

33 posted on 09/24/2024 6:02:33 PM PDT by BipolarBob (You may call me blind, deaf and dumb but I'm a Pinball Wizard.)
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To: BAN-ONE

A great movie.


34 posted on 09/24/2024 6:05:37 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: mairdie

We have 14 chickens. Can’t eat the eggs fast enough but I bake ,and eggs are usually included. Any eggs left over are freeze dried and powdered for future use.


35 posted on 09/24/2024 6:10:11 PM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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To: mairdie

I occasionally will scramble up to 10 eggs at once and when the price was good would buy my eggs in the Walmart 5 dozen box, but 700 eggs in a month would put you off eggs.

A chef who would serve them in their total variety of ways might make it doable.


36 posted on 09/24/2024 6:14:22 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: mairdie

Back in the ‘80s this place I worked at had an incredible Sunday Brunch buffet - it was truly a work of art. But this one guy would order a dozen eggs over easy, eschewing the elaborate fare.


37 posted on 09/24/2024 6:16:58 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: mairdie


"Afterwards, I didn't really notice any differences, other
than how seriously thick that egg-gas smog can get."

38 posted on 09/24/2024 6:21:08 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: frank ballenger

Is the Subway guy still around?

Seems I remember he had bad online viewing habits. Kids, or something.


39 posted on 09/24/2024 6:21:38 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: Leep

There’s much truth to your statement. All this health crap advice we’ve been told is garbage.

The story says eggs do not hurt cholesterol, well that’s been know for years.

Remember when the Adkins diet first came out? The so called experts about wet their pants over that one. Now doctors recommend it.

And I too eat lots of salt. My body craves it. And we eat lots of red meat.


40 posted on 09/24/2024 6:23:22 PM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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