But, but, but....I thought eggs were bad for cholesterol? I wish they’d make up their minds.
Eggs contain cholesterol, yes, but it doesn’t stay cholesterol as it is digested and torn apart into its constituent parts.
Bread, Pasta, Rice, Pies, Cakes and Sugars are BAD for your cholesterol, since they contain the ingredients your body uses to make cholesterol.
The real culprits are triglycerides................
And it works. Since I have had eggs (three eggs) in my daily diet, my cholesterol has gone down and has stayed down. Not to mention plenty of other so-called high cholesterol foods like cheese, shrimp and liver.
Many people do not understand that dietary cholesterol can be a good thing. In the absence of dietary cholesterol, your body will make its own. And not the good kind either.
All bets are off though if your dietary cholesterol is obtained through processed foods and hydrogenated oils like margarine for example.
No they are not. Dietitians made the assumption that higher dietary cholesterol resulted in higher blood cholesterol but that isn’t true. Cholesterol is controlled by the liver in response to inflammation and damage in the body. High cholesterol is a result of eating a poor quality, inflammatory diet.
The biggest dietary cause of inflammation is sugar and starch. The typical American diet, and the diet recommended for decades in the food pyramid, overwhelms the body in carbs. Fructose (one half of the sucrose/table sugar molecule) damages the liver and inhibits its function while glucose (the other half of sucrose and monomer of most starch) is managed by insulin and turned into fat in the form of triglycerides. Triglycerides are a marker for the more unhealthy form of LDL cholesterol. High triglycerides are a better predictor of cardiovascular decease than cholesterol alone is.