eggs & cholesterol

Who still believes that eggs raise blood cholesterol? 🍳

This is not true, but this idea, which comes from the 90s is still going around 30 years later. 🤦🏼‍♀️

 Let’s break this down.

 Dietary cholesterol (from food) is not the same as the cholesterol made by the liver. ❌

 Unless you have a genetic alteration and carry the apoE4 gene 🧬 or have a lack of some hormones, such as thyroid hormone, dietary cholesterol has a very minute impact on health.

.🧐 Nevertheless, it has been shown that dietary cholesterol has a stronger impact on blood cholesterol levels when it is combined with saturated fats.

 🧐 However generally, evidence from observational studies (not in a controlled environment) conducted in several countries does not indicate a significant association with cardiovascular disease risk. ✅

 🧐 Although meta-analyses (analyses of many studies) of intervention studies differ in their findings, most show that unless you’re eating abnormal amounts of cholesterol high foods* consistently, it’s fine! ✅

*cheese, yoghurt, fish and shellfish, organ meats and sardines

 While European countries have no upper limit on cholesterol consumption, the American Heart Association has changed its policy of eating 2 eggs per week to 1 egg per day (7 eggs sound like enough eggs for a week to me? 🤔)

 Aside from cholesterol, eggs are a source of highly absorbable protein, unsaturated fats, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins A and B and selenium. So, avoiding eggs is avoiding a very wholesome source of nutrients!

 Hope this makes things clearer and have an eggcelent day! 😉