The TRUTH About Eggs and Heart Health
Mainstream dietary advice is like watching a game of tennis in slow motion.
What’s good for you one day is bad the next. Good… bad… good… bad.
You couldn’t find a better example than eggs.
First, they were the perfect food.
Then, they were demonized for decades because these so-called experts declared their cholesterol content bad for your heart.
Now, a new study finally debunks this bogus idea. But it did reveal one surprising thing about heart health and eggs.
In my opinion, eggs are just about as perfect a food as you can get.
They’re a great source of protein, healthy fat, folate, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B12, vitamin E, lutein, and zeaxanthin. They’re also one of the few foods that contain vitamin D.
Eggs also contain cholesterol—which is what the naysayers have been warning about for decades.
They claimed that eating cholesterol increases cholesterol levels in the body, but for most people, that simply isn’t true—at least not enough to make any measurable difference.
But that didn’t stop people from skipping eggs altogether or opting for egg whites.
But now, a study has finally debunked this egg-hating nonsense.
In a randomized, controlled trial, people who ate 12 eggs a week for four months did not have higher cholesterol levels than people who ate two eggs or less per week.
In fact, people who ate the most eggs had reduced levels of total cholesterol, insulin resistance, high-sensitivity troponin (a marker of heart damage), and increased beneficial HDL cholesterol.
This study confirmed that eating a LOT of eggs is not only NOT harmful, but extremely GOOD for your heart!
The takeaway here is simple.
Toss that mainstream cholesterol advice out the window.
Then go fix your favorite kind of eggs.
I’ll take mine over easy.
P.S. There’s ANOTHER food you’ve been told to avoid at all costs that’s actually GOOD for you. In fact, research reveals that this “forbidden food” could help ward off Alzheimer’s.
SOURCE:
“Eggs may not be bad for your heart after all, ” American College of Cardiology Meeting, American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session [ACC.24] April 6-8, 2024, in Atlanta, GA
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