Love To Eat Eggs? U.S. Panel Now Says They're Not A Health Risk

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NEW YORK Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:51am IST

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Feb 19 (Reuters) - Egg and red meat lovers may find reason to rejoice in a decision by a U.S. advisory health panel to remove warnings about dietary cholesterol, saying that there is no link to dangerous levels of blood cholesterol that cause disease.

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee until now had recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to 300 milligrams per day, about the amount in two eggs.

After reviewing scores of studies that showed no correlation between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, or "bad" cholesterol present in the blood, the committee determined that cholesterol was not "a nutrient of concern for overconsumption," it wrote in its report.

For decades, health and government officials warned against consumption of high-cholesterol foods, such as red meat and eggs, saying they greatly increased the risk of heart disease and obesity. But many doctors and nutritionists now say there is no link between dietary cholesterol and dangerous levels of cholesterol in the blood that cause disease.

"Many of us for a long time have believed the dietary guidelines were pointing in the wrong direction," Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, said in an interview. "It is long overdue."

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[hollysmom]

1. I just go with real food

what is bad today is good tomorrow
My after college roommate used to yell at me for eating butter and kept saying margarine was the answer, but nope, it wasn't - margarine ended up being bad for you and butter good - so go for flavor. You should have seen her face when I introduced home grown tomatoes and peaches, she only at those pink ones from the store and kept them in the fridge. But she was better than my sister-in-law who used to open a can af vegetables and put them on the table still in the can, no heating. and she wondered why her kid never ate food. All I can say is that kid ate like crazy at my house.

[azurnoir]

2. so steak and eggs with buttered toast won't kill you after all?

okay there's still that calorie thing but that can be dealt with

[LittleGirl]

3. Yep, I discovered this a couple of years ago

when I started eating Paleo and eating nothing but food from scratch. Slathered on the butter and oil and drank coconut oil after breakfast and my cholesterol dropped 100 points in 3 months. That's because I gave up grains and dairy so replaced it with grass fed beef, organic chicken, bacon that was unsalted and whole veggies cooked at home. No more processed or canned or frozen foods. I eat rice pasta (found in the Asian aisle) and plan every meal that way. No more baked goods for me and I've lost 30 lbs and my puffed up moon face is gone. Read the Wheat Belly book or Practical Paleo for the science of food and eating healthy. Find local restaurants that cook from scratch and you too can enjoy a meal out once a week. I'm living proof.

[Cha]

5. Good for you, LittleGirl!

[LittleGirl]

6. Thanks! eom

[libdem4life]

9. I second the Wheat Belly book, William Davis, MD...what an eye opener. I'm just a week into it and

already see small changes. One surprised me...had just begun a little incontinence ugh...almost gone. Cravings almost gone. And the first ever "spare tire" after getting hooked on Pepperidge Farms Ancient Whole Grains Bread. Even with some supplementing with M&Ms, I've lost a couple of pounds.

Davis says that 2 pieces of whole wheat bread are the equivalent of 2 Tablespoons of sugar...ties it to diabetes. Very scientific and well-researched, but you really get the message. And yes, dairy is back. I think he or someone emphasizes fermented dairy as the best. Without milk on cereal, just need it for cooking.

Maybe someone will start a thread on an appropriate group about it. My niece is full blown celiac, so it must run in the gene pool, taking no chances.

On Edit: It's not the "amber waves of grain" wheat any more. It's stubby little dwarf plans with heavy pods of "wheat" berries. The DNA has been changed so many times our bodies hardly recognize it anymore, so it just escapes the intestine wall and gets stored as fat.

[LittleGirl]

10. exactly.

I gave up wheat about 2 yrs ago and then about 6 months in, I went grain free. No rice or nothing for about 6 weeks and I lost a whopping 15 lbs of fluid. I was up every night peeing. I couldn't believe it. I started to eat rice again about once a week and I'm back to almost daily and sure enough gained about 8 lbs back since then. I don't eat wheat if I can help it. It sneaks into processed food often so beware. Yes, celiacs have a gene mutation and I know I have it but don't have full blown celiac, but my brother, one nephew and I think my Mother does. Her brother died of colon cancer about 40 yrs ago too and he had an enormous wheat belly. Everyone in my family has issues with wheat and dairy. I've been lactose intolerant for 30+ yrs and went dairy free about a year ago. I feel really good and don't miss it at all.
Good luck on your success. If you have facebook, Dr. Davis has a wheat belly facebook group and he posts success stories all of the time. Amazing results.

[Enthusiast]

4. I know of too many long lived people of past generations that ate eggs every day.

It was the nearly universal breakfast food when I was growing up. It didn't kill people or make them ill.

[djean111]

7. Never stopped eating eggs. Or butter.

Low-carb simple food. Great cholesterol levels and blood pressure, getting to 70, no diabetes.
No heart problems. I will just keep on doing things my way.

[MannyGoldstein]

8. More woo debunked!

Thank Goddess we have medical science to debunk medical science.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Having dropped a pants size in the past couple of months, I'll let you in on a secret.

Eat less and exercise more.

You don't need to cut out carbs or fat or eat like a caveman or drink only weird shakes. Just reduce your portion size (eat most of what you like, just less of it), cut down on snacking, and try to exercise more.

I know, novel concept, right?

[Rozlee]

12. Didn't I read about this ten or so years ago?

My sister did the biggest happy dance I've ever seen when she showed me some article saying eating eggs was healthy and that they had been moved from the category of foods that shouldn't be eaten regularly. I've eaten an egg fried in a pat of butter with dry toast as breakfast almost every day for years or two boiled ones with syrup (don't judge). I'm in my 50's now and I've only gained ten pounds from my teens when I weighed 92. My good cholesterol is through the roof. My parents and aunts and uncles where slender and that was considering the fact that they ate eggs fried in lard or bacon fat every morning with tortillas made with lard. I think that the secret is that they did back-breaking labor in fields as migrant workers. French people eat foods dripping with butter, cream and sauces and they keep thin because they walk everywhere and don't overload their plates.

[LiberalElite]

13. I bet 5 years from now

it'll be STEP AWAY FROM THE EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!