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Eggs Don’t Cause Heart Attacks – Sugar Does

• 234dd57d2c8db 10y ago
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989358/ "there are good reasons for long-standing recommendations that dietary cholesterol should be limited to less than 200 mg/day; a single large egg yolk contains approximately 275 mg of cholesterol (more than a day’s worth of cholesterol)." Cholesterol is the only cause of Atherosclerosis, a leading cause of heart attacks. A single egg has more cholesterol than you're supposed to have all day. This myth that eggs have "good" cholesterol needs to die, the ratio of cholesterol in eggs (and all animal products) is terrible.
• brandon272 10y ago
  This article offers nothing new and is written to sell this guy's "blood sugar detox" book.
  • stevefeinstein 10y ago
    Yes, I agree. But I also agree his hypothesis is sound, and the more voices that speak is the better off we all are as more ears will hear it.
    • gertef 10y ago
      That line of thinking is pragmatically equivalent to "let whoever spams the most win"
    • brandon272 10y ago
      I can't take the hypothesis seriously when it is at least partially framed by this dude's desire to sell books. The "new study" he references in the beginning of the article isn't even new; it's 3 years old. Perhaps my back is up because the book has the baity word "detox" in the title.
  • mcv 10y ago
    This has been known by some people for a long time, but as far as I know, US food products still contain ridiculous amounts of sugar. Until that changes, more attention is clearly needed.
• pstuart 10y ago
  Tangental but relevant: Vitamin K2 appears to be worth supplementing in this regard: http://vitamink2.org/effect-vitamin-k2-progression-atherosclerosis-vascular-calcification-non-dialyzed-patients-chronic-kidney-disease-stage-35-kurnatowska-et-al/ http://vitamink2.org/effect-vitamin-k2-progression-atheroscl...
• the_gastropod 10y ago
  I don't understand the need to create this false dichotomy. Eggs _do_ increase cholesterol, which leads to heart attacks. So does sugar.
  • thealfreds 10y ago
    I thought that cholesterol -> heart attacks was found to all be bupkis a while ago.
    • the_gastropod 10y ago
      Found to be bupkis by who? Elevated LDL increases heart disease risk in women from 44% (for large LDL) to 63% (small LDL). Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19204302 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19204302
      • thealfreds 10y ago
        Dietary cholesterol and not blood levels.
    • chrisbennet 10y ago
      I think that dietary cholesterol was given a bad rap. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751443 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751443 Cholesterol levels in your blood are correlated with high risk of heart attack. As I understand it, higher cholesterol levels in your blood are a response to arterial damage - damage caused by sugar among other things (I guess). Eggs aren't causing high cholesterol any more than bandages cause scraped knees.
  • dreamcompiler 10y ago
    Eggs are cholesterol you eat, or dietary cholesterol. DC has been shown to have little or nothing to do with the amount of cholesterol in your blood.
    • the_gastropod 10y ago
• n2dasun 10y ago
  https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/y76i3/bad_news_for_keto_breakfast_study_finds_egg_yolks/ https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/y76i3/bad_news_for_keto...
• n2dasun 10y ago
  https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/3oyilq/analysisevidence_against_excess_dietary/ https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/3oyilq/analysisevidence...