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Eggs - Good or Bad?

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resander

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CNN 2019-03-27:
Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html

HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23:
The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe for healthy people. Eggs consistently raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol. For 70% of people, there is no increase in total or LDL cholesterol.

For people with diabetes:

Eric Berg says:
4 or more eggs OK
ADA (American Diabetes Association) said 2015:
Eat less than 300 mg dietary cholesterol (one egg) per day but also said 'Research now shows that cholesterol in foods has little effect on raising overall cholesterol levels in the body' unfortunately without quoting any sources.

So, I will continue to eat my 4 eggs per day 7 days a week, two poached in breakfasts and 2 in omelettes/scrambled for lunch.

Your thoughts on this and egg consumption?
 
Eggs are good. No! Eggs are excellent so knock yourself out!
 
Eggs are great, but...

  • Eat whole eggs, to include the healthy fats from the yolk
  • The source of the eggs and what the chickens were fed is key. Avoid corn and soy fed. Go for organic and pasture raised.
 
Eggs are fabulous. But, I always make sure mines are free range
 
resander said:
CNN 2019-03-27:
Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html

HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23:
The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe for healthy people. Eggs consistently raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol. For 70% of people, there is no increase in total or LDL cholesterol.

For people with diabetes:

Eric Berg says:
4 or more eggs OK
ADA (American Diabetes Association) said 2015:
Eat less than 300 mg dietary cholesterol (one egg) per day but also said 'Research now shows that cholesterol in foods has little effect on raising overall cholesterol levels in the body' unfortunately without quoting any sources.

So, I will continue to eat my 4 eggs per day 7 days a week, two poached in breakfasts and 2 in omelettes/scrambled for lunch.

Your thoughts on this and egg consumption?
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Loves eggs. Better with bacon.
 
resander said:
CNN 2019-03-27:
Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html

HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23:
The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe for healthy people. Eggs consistently raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol. For 70% of people, there is no increase in total or LDL cholesterol.

For people with diabetes:

Eric Berg says:
4 or more eggs OK
ADA (American Diabetes Association) said 2015:
Eat less than 300 mg dietary cholesterol (one egg) per day but also said 'Research now shows that cholesterol in foods has little effect on raising overall cholesterol levels in the body' unfortunately without quoting any sources.

So, I will continue to eat my 4 eggs per day 7 days a week, two poached in breakfasts and 2 in omelettes/scrambled for lunch.

Your thoughts on this and egg consumption?
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Eggs are eggcellent.. Dr Berg less so...
 
As far as eggs go I tried homemade tamagoyaki (without sugar) in a small frying pan but am graduating to a square pan when it arrives next week. Basically an omelette with a fancy Japanese name...
 
12-20 a DAY but only 4 yolks a day
Competing strongman - I need the protein and there is very little that can beat the quality of the protein in eggs - i.e. balance of amino acids
Omelettes at the moment but every now and then I flip over to hard boiled. Fried eggs (olive oil) at the week end.

Does it work: I've been on 12-24 eggs a day since I was 18. Food is functional (for me) it works.

Sean
 
Yes - lots of uncertainty here. But recent analysis is interesting:-

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2728487

Each half an egg eaten per day increased risk of cardiovascular disease 6%, each 300 mg cholesterol eaten per day was associated with a 17% increase in CVD. The effect of eggs disappeared when one adjusts for the whole cholesterol intake (including the eggs) suggesting that it is the cholesterol in the eggs that is the problem. The study does not look at the blood cholesterol levels, but rather at the putative adverse outcomes of cardiovascular disease or death (which are true hard outcomes ).
I like my full English breakfast, so this is a blow. :(
 
SimonCrox said:
Yes - lots of uncertainty here. But recent analysis is interesting:-

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2728487

Each half an egg eaten per day increased risk of cardiovascular disease 6%, each 300 mg cholesterol eaten per day was associated with a 17% increase in CVD. The effect of eggs disappeared when one adjusts for the whole cholesterol intake (including the eggs) suggesting that it is the cholesterol in the eggs that is the problem. The study does not look at the blood cholesterol levels, but rather at the putative adverse outcomes of cardiovascular disease or death (which are true hard outcomes ).
I like my full English breakfast, so this is a blow. :(
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Usual food questionnaire rubbish..Even Keys said that dietary cholesterol doesn't effect blood cholesterol levels.
How can you tell from a food questionnaire that half an egg a day will have an impact on blood cholesterol?
Edit to add Dr Harcombe's debunking of that particular piece.
http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/
 
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Pasha said:
Interesting article by a cardiologist,

https://theskepticalcardiologist.co...ng-nutritional-epidemiology-in-the-headlines/
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On top of the shoddy, click-bait, studies there are many truly nefarious studies sponsored by the big beverage and packaged food manufacturers, who will cherry pick just those that may put them in a better light. All the other studies will never even see the light of day, packaged in tight contracts with the researchers. For example:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...gs-scientists-walk-away-data-study-finds.html

And I am sure most are aware of the sugar studies from the 1960s that can be partly to blame for the whole all fat and cholesterol is bad nonsense and the spectacular rise of diabetes:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
 
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