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March 29, 2006 | Issue 58 |
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"Eggs are a 'miracle' food?"
That’s certainly what the egg industry’s promotion arm, the American Egg Board, would have you believe. In national ad campaigns and on its website, www.aeb.org, eggs are touted as "nature’s miracle food" and have a "high nutrient density and wide range of vitamins and minerals."
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LOWER YOUR CHOLESTEROL
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But no matter how you crack, scramble, boil, or poach them, egg yolks are loaded with cholesterol – 215 milligrams per egg. That’s more than double the Pritikin Program’s upper limit recommendation of 100mg of dietary cholesterol for the entire day. Ideally, and particularly for individuals with heart disease and/or high LDL (bad) cholesterol, consumption of dietary cholesterol should average no more than about 35mg per day.
"Even the National Cholesterol Education Program and American Heart Association have made it clear that the more cholesterol you consume, the higher your LDL cholesterol rises," points out Dr. Jay Kenney, Nutrition Research Specialist at the Pritikin Longevity Center. And the higher your LDL rises, the more artery clogging plaque you accumulate.
Egg yolks also contain some saturated fat, so once again, the more you eat, the higher your LDL cholesterol soars.
And LDL can rise quickly – and dramatically. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. William Connor and fellow researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University added egg yolks to the low-fat, high-fiber diet of the Tarahumara Indians of rural Mexico. In just five weeks, their average LDL levels shot up 39%.*
Another study by Harvard researchers observed about a 12% increase in serum LDL-cholesterol levels when strict vegetarians added just one egg per day to their diet for a few weeks.**
"The only miracle about eggs is that some people can in fact eat a lot of them and...
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