Egg Yolks Harden Your Arteries Like Smoking, Research Finds
Eggs are a fickle staple of nutrition, and it’s a bit of a pop-culture mainstay that the breakfast standards are considered a food powerhouse one week, and the satan of Sunday breakfasts another.
One of the greater nutritional debates of our time — right up there with whether carbs are the devil and whether wheatgrass is really worth choking down or just makes you look enlightened when your order it at Jamba Juice — is whether eggs are a diet goldmine or basically death lurking in your fridge, personified in a smooth, easy-to-dye shell.
But research this week has settled on the latter, pegging eggs as a danger to your arteries up there on par with smoking, which is basically the most dangerous consensual act in which an adult can legally engage other than leaving a Los Angeles hotspot with Lindsay Lohan behind the wheel.
The egg yolk indictment comes from a study of around 1,200 patients, and the results are kind of jarring if you think egg white omelettes are totally pointless and prefer your Denny’s Grand Slams leaking on your homefries. Research suggests that regular consumption of egg yolks carries a stunning two-thirds the risk of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, as smoking.
ScienceDaily quotes Dr. David Spence of Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, who led the study. Spence explains:
“The mantra ‘eggs can be part of a healthy diet for healthy people’ has confused the issue. It has been known for a long time that a high cholesterol intake increases the risk of cardiovascular events, and egg yolks have a very high cholesterol content.”
He continues:
“In diabetics, an egg a day increases coronary risk by two to five-fold… What we have shown is that with aging, plaque builds up gradually in the arteries of Canadians, and egg yolks make it build up faster — about two-thirds as much as smoking. In the long haul, egg yolks are not okay for most Canadians.”
Researchers urge those at risk of cardiovascular disease to avoid regular consumption of egg yolks.
Tags : are eggs heart healthy, atherosclerosis, atherosclerosis egg yolks, egg yolks, egg yolks hardening arteries, heart health
Posted: August 15, 2012
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Aug 15, 2012
Yet another demonstration of the fraud in the racket called "science".
They used to say that all cholestrol was dangerous. Then, after enough people had ruined their health from eliminating all from their systems, they revealed that only "low density lipoproteins" are dangerous! They said carbohydrates cause weight gain, then revealed that they "suddenly realized" that they had been working on the basis of pasta meals and they had forgotten to consider the effect of the sauces! Salt was condemned but is a crucial electrolyte. In fact, fat is a critical metabolizer. Vitamin A and several other crucial vitamins are "fat soluble", which means you need fat in your system for them to become mobile!
Notice the contrivances they use to engineer the results that agree with their lie.
They talk about people having "lots of egg yolks" or "three or more egg yolks". What does "lots" mean, what does "or more" mean? They probably examined people who had up to twenty egg yolks a week! That could be toxic to anybody! They don't mention that, though! They act like three yolks is the start of the range they are examining, which it can be claimed to be, just like zero yolks, which they seem to suggest is safe, can be claimed to be. But, in reality, they are hinging their "unhealthy" claims only on the obscene overconsumption. But don't expect them to admit how many those who exhibited unhealthy traits ate! And what of those who ate only a few eggs and then lightly the rest of the time?
And notice the insistence on not mentioning egg whites!
Did those examined only eat egg yolks?
Is it possible there is something in the egg white that can mediate any cholestrol from the egg yolks?
And, consider the flawed methodology. The "test group" consisted only of patients at the vascular prevention clinic at London Health Sciences Centre. Maybe those people were all pre-disposed to plaque in the arteries!
"Science" is a scam. A system that crooks manipulate to say what they want it to say.
Ask yourself, how small is a chick? How can the contents of an egg, which represents 100% of the substance of a developing chick, which is crucial for the health of a devleoping chick, possibly be dangerous for a human who weighs a thousand times as much or more?