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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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1 posted on 06/10/2021 10:46:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Cool Hand Luke is still alive?


2 posted on 06/10/2021 10:47:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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This was back in 1991, when Poppy Bush was in office.
I suspect today, there would be repeated and aggressive attempts at intervention. The Nutritionists would not leave him alone.

This almost sounds like addictive behavior. We can become emotionally addicted to anything, any pattern or ritual.
It also sounds as if he was asking for help with that addiction (’Eating these eggs ruins my life, but I can’t help it!”). That can’t have been good for bowel function.
The eating of eggs was his way to cope with getting through another day of lonliness. I would strongly suspect this gentleman is long dead at this time.


3 posted on 06/10/2021 10:58:59 AM PDT by lee martell
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Hey... Don't forget the bacon... Lots and lots of bacon... Mmm... Yummy!


4 posted on 06/10/2021 10:59:17 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: lee martell

If he was 88 in 1990-91, then he’d be 118 by now....................


5 posted on 06/10/2021 11:03:26 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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When I was about 24 I would eat a whole package of bacon for breakfast.

I am now 66 and had a Quad By-pass operation just over a year ago...............


6 posted on 06/10/2021 11:05:41 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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Interesting. Serum cholesterol levels have more to do with how the body’s control mechanism is maintaining the right levels rather than how much you are consuming in your diet. In his case the body dialed down absorption and increased metabolism to maintain a steady and safe level. The important thing probably is that his diet was stable over a long period of time so his body had time to adjust to a steady state. Wonder what the levels would be if he ate say 3 eggs on one day, 17 the next.. then none for the next three days .. followed by the 24 the day after and so forth. I will bet they would be crazy high.


7 posted on 06/10/2021 11:06:46 AM PDT by libh8er
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Damn! A whole package of bacon? I’m impressed, but nobody tried to stop you? Of course, at that age (24) I was already living on my own, and there was no one in the apartment to raise any objections on what I ate or drank.
Nobody was there except for Juanita, my Cocker Spainel puppy. I’m guessing it was that way for you too.


8 posted on 06/10/2021 11:10:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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Luke at 50 of them.

Interesting sidenote: Newman hated eggs and would spit them out immediately after chewing them which is why you never saw him eat one, start to finish.


9 posted on 06/10/2021 11:11:23 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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Yep, I had just gotten out of the Marines and still had that huge appetite! I never really got ‘fat’ though, most I ever weighed in life was 215.................


10 posted on 06/10/2021 11:12:26 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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I average 3 extra large free run eggs a day, and have for 20+ years. I have eaten as many as a dozen, but try to eat 3 per day. They do not constipate you or give you gas if you soft boil or cook them sunnyside up. Hard boiled eggs are those culprits. My cholesterol? Who cares? It is not an indicator of anything except for a trigger for the doctor to become pharmaceutical salesman. Taking cholesterol lowering medications, lowers brain function. The brain is a very high percentage cholesterol in its makeup.


11 posted on 06/10/2021 11:12:38 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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Thank God for Lipitor... Sadly, over 90% of our long term health is related to the genes you inherited. My family is a cancer family... Lots and lots of cancer. Other’s get the bad heart gene... Lots and lots of heart attacks.


12 posted on 06/10/2021 11:16:02 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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“Taking cholesterol lowering medications LOWERS BRAIN FUNCTION!!!”

You don’t say!
I need to study what’s in my Med. Cabinet.


13 posted on 06/10/2021 11:17:07 AM PDT by lee martell
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This article was so full of metric bs I decided to read something else.


14 posted on 06/10/2021 11:17:15 AM PDT by enumerated
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"I average 3 extra large free run eggs a day, and have for 20+ years. I have eaten as many as a dozen, but try to eat 3 per day. They do not constipate you or give you gas if you soft boil or cook them sunnyside up. Hard boiled eggs are those culprits. My cholesterol? Who cares? It is not an indicator of anything except for a trigger for the doctor to become pharmaceutical salesman. Taking cholesterol lowering medications, lowers brain function. The brain is a very high percentage cholesterol in its makeup."

Perhaps read a bit of @Mangan150 on Twitter. Sun, Steak, & Steel. He's an interesting cat. Throws the Foot Pyramind upside down and has research papers he finds that amaze me. Briefly and not a qoute high choleterol means your body can functionally process the fat's you are giving it. I hope I spell this correct Choline, eggs are a great source. I wonder if this gent would have faired worse in the memory dept without it.

15 posted on 06/10/2021 11:20:43 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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It is not an indicator of anything except for a trigger for the doctor to become pharmaceutical salesman.

Bingo. So much of the cholesterol noise being spewed out is just garbage. Things like eggs and high quality butter are good for you, contrary to the "noise".

16 posted on 06/10/2021 11:29:16 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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My family is a cancer family... Lots and lots of cancer. Other’s get the bad heart gene... Lots and lots of heart attacks.

My theory is a lot of that is due to inherited dietary habits, not genes.

17 posted on 06/10/2021 11:31:33 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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I love bacon and eggs but, half a can of this Chilorio scrambled with 6 eggs, peppers onions and hot sauce is my latest crave.
It's low carb.
My good American Mexican neighbor introduced me to Chata products.
It's just shredded pork with lard and spices...maybe just a few cartel enemies mixed in?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0882NSLZS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3BD012VODWFGN&psc=1

18 posted on 06/10/2021 11:32:05 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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Man, I bet there are some smelly farts at that nursing home...


19 posted on 06/10/2021 11:32:34 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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Well I eat my customary one egg daily for breakfast. I went a few days recently without my breakfast egg and I felt weaker, sluggish. I figure one daily egg won’t kill me but if it eventually does then so be it.


20 posted on 06/10/2021 11:34:57 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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