High Cholesterol Eggs?
Are High Cholesterol Eggs Really Elevating Your Blood Cholesterol Levels?
The confusion about cholesterol and eggs is as great as any other topic concerning blood cholesterol levels.
For decades now, we’ve known that eggs – specifically the egg yolk – is high in cholesterol. And we’ve been told to limit our dietary cholesterol intake in order to keep our levels down and reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease.
One large chicken egg typically has between 200-213 milligrams of cholesterol. And since the daily intake recommendation is less than 300mg per day … it’s easy to see why eating eggs would be a no-no on a low cholesterol diet.
Yes, egg yolks are a food that is high in cholesterol. That’s 100% true.
The logic in that advice is too simple to ignore. Eat too much cholesterol and our levels will elevate to dangerous levels. (Or so we thought…)
Then came reports from organizations like the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society that weren’t very anti-egg at all. Their studies showed that eating 1-2 eggs … every single day … has little to no impact on your cholesterol levels or risk of coronary heart disease.
Then the Harvard Medical School jumped on board with more pro-egg information.
In fact, new studies are popping up all over the place which show little to no connection between eating eggs and having high cholesterol in the blood. (I’ll get back to this point in a minute. It’s critically important in understanding all this…)
FACT: Eggs are high in cholesterol.
MYTH: All that food cholesterol goes straight to your bloodstream and is a risk to clog arteries.
While it makes sense that eating high cholesterol foods would cause high blood cholesterol … the truth is … it doesn’t. It never has. It never will.
Eat the egg as a whole … egg white and yolk together … and it’s a good, healthy food.
In fact, eggs are packed with good nutrients. One egg contains around 6 grams of protein as well as healthy unsaturated fats. Eggs are also known to be a good source of choline and lutein. (Choline has been directly linked with preventing memory loss, and lutein aids with vision.)
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To the point and an excellent article.
Thank you for posting this kind of information. It will help a lot of people especially those who has high cholesterol. Keep it up!