Nice News - Despite all the protein, vitamins, and minerals that eggs dish out, they feature one potential thorn in an otherwise rosy nutritional profile: They’re famously high in cholesterol, leading some 20th-century researchers to suggest that they could raise your cholesterol and contribute to heart disease. However, a new study out of Australia may have flipped the script.
Publishing their results in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers narrowed in on the difference between dietary cholesterol — the kind eggs contain — and LDL cholesterol, or the “bad” kind that can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. They found that eating two eggs a day as part of a high-cholesterol, low-saturated fat diet actually lowered LDL levels, potentially reducing the risk of heart disease.
“Eggs have long been unfairly cracked by outdated dietary advice,” lead researcher Jon Buckley said in a news release. “They’re unique — high in cholesterol, yes, but low in saturated fat. Yet it’s their cholesterol level that has often caused people to question their place in a healthy diet.”
He continued, “In this study, we separated the effects of cholesterol and saturated fat, finding that high dietary cholesterol from eggs, when eaten as part of a low saturated fat diet, does not raise bad cholesterol levels.”
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I have been eating two eggs a day for decades and I never had a problem with high cholesterol. However, with the exception of dairy products, I.’ve been a vegetarian since the 1970s.
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