The return of the egg? New dietary guidelines may downplay cholesterol risks

FOX News ^ | 02-11-2015 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Eating a whole egg, yolks and all, has gotten a bad reputation over the years, but new dietary guidelines may send egg white-only omelets by the wayside. The recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which are now under review, are expected to downplay the importance of lowering cholesterol intake.

The most recent set of guidelines in 2010 recommended consuming less than 300 milligrams per day of dietary cholesterol, which is about the amount in one egg.

In the coming weeks, the committee is expected to release the report for use by the Agriculture and Health and Human Services Departments to write the final version of the 2015 dietary guidelines, due by the end of this year.

For decades, the government has warned against diets high in cholesterol. But now many nutritionists believe that cholesterol intake may not significantly impact cholesterol blood levels or increase the risk of heart disease in healthy adults, according to the Washington Post.

[fatnotlazy]

Yes it will, but I gave up pastries several years ago. Same with chips and other snacks. The only dessert I have is pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. Once a year.

[jy8z]

I've read articles stating the egg is actually considered Mother Nature's vitamin. I eat eggs almost every day. They are usually less than an hour old as they come from my own hens.

[Terry L Smith]

I have never stopped eating eggs.
I just don’t eat them every day, because it is human nature to speak that phrase, “what? again?”

[Yaelle]

As long as the egg is from a pastured chicken in clean, natural surroundings, it is the healthiest food on the planet.

[jy8z]

it was time to make pickled eggs or egg salad

Deviled eggs are good too...

[catnipman]

Based on research, it’s been known for decades that dietary intake of cholesterol has absolutely nothing to do with serum cholesterol levels. Likewise, saturated fat intake is unrelated to cholesterol levels or heart disease.

Furthermore, cholesterol levels are pretty much unrelated to heart disease anyway. For instance, lowering cholesterol by any drugs except for statins (e.g., Zetia, cholestyramine, etc.) does not reduce CVD risks nor do they improve mortality. (There are FAR better predictors and markers for CVD than cholesterol, with triglyceride levels being one of the biggies.)

This means that whatever it is that statins do, it’s not their cholesterol-lowering function that gives them their putative mortality improvements.

Knowledgeable Cardiologists know this, and the honest ones will tell you that no one really knows why statins appear to work. General speculation is that statins are simply a form of anti-inflammatory drugs.

Nonetheless, I refuse to take them because the side-effects can be horrendous (they are for me), and a major side-effect is the suppression of CoQ10 by the liver, and as it turns out the heart requires more CoQ10 than any other muscle or organ in the body.

[lulu16]

Bookmark about cholesterol discussion with hubby for later. Thank-you.

[Dusty Road]

“By real Coca Cola I figger you mean Mexican Coke...”

Come November I will be here in West Texas 65 years and I don’t have a clue what your talking about. Are you confusing Coca Cola with Dublin DR Pepper?

[RegulatorCountry]

“Mexican Coke” and “Kosher for Passover Coke” are made the original way with cane sugar. The rest of it is made with high fructose corn syrup.

[Dusty Road]

Well I’ll be damned y’all taught an old West Texas Dog something new. I thought it was just the Dublin DR Pepper that used cane sugar.

[trebb]

I’m with you - real foods despite the “warnings of doom if you do” crowds. Never bit with the no salt/no/eggs/no fat/no sugar crap over the years. Maintain a good weight and exercise regularly. 62 and no prescription medicines needed. I have cut back a bit on carbs as I get older though - the furnace still burns but it can’t consume as many of that type calories as it used to each day.

[catnipman]

“Bookmark about cholesterol discussion with hubby for later. Thank-you.”

Don’t just take my word for it, do some googling of your own. Also, there are tons of books on this subject. The bottom line is that the cholesterol hypothesis was a hoax all along, on the order of the global warming hoax, except the cholesterol hoax directly killed millions of people.

Here’s one little fun video I just ran across:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4

BTW, the thing that’s REALLY bad is the synthetic, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. That was the main stuff that’s been killing people. (That and fructose and refined grains). Mary Eng, from the University of Maryland in the early ‘70s started trying to raise the alarm about partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which was being erroneously sold as live-saving, when in fact it is life-destroying. I figured that out myself in the early ‘70s when I noticed flies and cockroaches wouldn’t even look at margarine left out on the counter as obviously they didn’t consider it food.

Really knowledgeable docs now believe, based on research, that PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids), the OTHER bad thing we were told was good for us, are indeed bad as they are highly prone to oxidation in the body, producing destructive free-radicals.

Turns out saturated fats and mono-saturated are the healthy ones. In fact, despite all the propaganda, one would starve to death if one ate no saturated fat, and cholesterol is the mother chemical for all the steroid hormones and it is vial for operation of the brain.

Here’s a link on PUFA content:

http://gratefultable.com/heat-bad-for-pufas-how-to-cook-healthy-oils/

[uncitizen]

One day soon, Meatless Monday’s will be law and eggs will be our only option.

[lulu16]

What if you are a regular exerciser, eat balanced meals, hardly have processed foods in your diet, have a trim body (and look twenty years younger than people think), never seriously sick,but your cholesterol level is verging?

I don’t like the jaundiced eye from the ( revolving) nurse attendant at my yearly exam. What do the numbers mean ( and I don’t know mine) and what if they threaten meds?

I will look at your links later. Thank-you for your detailed response, Catnip.

[latina4dubya]

Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup...

[Red Badger]

Venezuela, Zimbabwe, N.Korea...............Socialist paradise!..........But Americans will not put up with it..........for long.............

[Red Badger]

With Apologies to: THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS
“Meatless Mondays”

Meatless Mondays, so good to see;
Meatless Monday, it was all I hoped it would be.
Oh, Meatless Monday couldn’t eat no Brie
That Monday evening you would still be drinking green tea.

Meatless Mondays, can’t trust that day;
Meatless Mondays, sometimes it just turns out that way.
Oh, Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be.
Oh, Meatless Mondays, how could you leave and not take me?

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah.

But whenever Monday comes - but whenever Monday comes
You can find me crying all of the time.

Meatless Mondays, so good to me;
Meatless Monday, it was all I hoped it would be.
Oh, Meatless Monday couldn’t eat no Brie
That Monday evening you would still be drinking green tea.

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah.

But whenever Monday comes - but whenever Monday comes
You can find me crying all of the time.

Meatless Mondays, can’t eat that day;
Meatless Mondays, it just turns out that way.
Oh, Meatless Mondays, won’t go away;
Meatless Mondays, it’s here to stay.
Oh Meatless Mondays
Oh Meatless Mondays