This post is mostly for my father, who has been depriving himself of eggs for the past few years for cholesterol reasons. Turns out, dietary cholesterol has nothing to do with how your body stores cholesterol in your blood (HDL or LDL, etc), and this makes total sense. I've already heard whispers of this, but here it is in words for you.
THAT SAID... Factory farm chickens are sad, and so it would be best to find a local farmer to get eggs from. Or get your own!
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Hi Michelle, thanks for the posting.
Well, this is not a very meat article that you linked to. I understand that dietary cholesterol has little to do with blood cholesterol, but when I was on the Atkins style diet eating five or six eggs a day my cholesterol was high. Way higher than when I went on it. When I stopped eating all the eggs it when down. When I cut way back on meat and butter fat it went down more.
So yeah, it might be all the olive oil and peanut oil eat instead, but I think that I know from my own experience that eggs raise my cholesterol.
How are these researchers really going to explain my experience?
Anyway. I still eat eggs, but only one or two a week. My wife keeps sneaking them in to my diet. I am not above using it in a recipe. I also eat them when travelling, as the best among many evils at breakfast.
Dad/Greg
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