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Re: Egg Article-What do you think?
I suggest you do more readings...
Originally posted by chunk!
"The myth that eggs are somehow linked with heart disease received its impetus fifty years ago when research sponsored by the Cereal Institute (please do notice the sponsor) demonstrated that feeding eggs to animals and humans would raise their serum cholesterol level.
"Recently, Bruce Taylor, M.D., of Albany Medical College, pointed out that all the compelling research of the early years was done by feeding dried egg yolk powder, not fried or poached eggs as eggs are usually eaten. Then he proved that the dried yolk powder is an oxidized form that is toxic to the blood vessels. By rights, all the early powdered egg yolk studies would have to be thrown out as invalid. But Dr. Taylor's warning was not heeded...
"The results of the powdered egg yolk studies... have not been borne out in later studies in the 1970s and 1980s. There are close to a dozen published studies showing very litle, if any, cholesterol elevation from eating eggs.
"...if you want a quick test to judge whether a doctor is a good nutritionist, ask him what he thinks of eggs. If he insists that you must restrict your egg consumption, he's a poor nutritionist. If he says you must always make sure to include eggs in your diet, he's a good nutritionist. And if he says you should always include eggs in your diet unless you have a specific intolerance to them, he's an even better nutritionist."
-- Dr. Robert Atkins; Dr. Atkins Health Revolution, pp 235-236
"Recently, Bruce Taylor, M.D., of Albany Medical College, pointed out that all the compelling research of the early years was done by feeding dried egg yolk powder, not fried or poached eggs as eggs are usually eaten. Then he proved that the dried yolk powder is an oxidized form that is toxic to the blood vessels. By rights, all the early powdered egg yolk studies would have to be thrown out as invalid. But Dr. Taylor's warning was not heeded...
"The results of the powdered egg yolk studies... have not been borne out in later studies in the 1970s and 1980s. There are close to a dozen published studies showing very litle, if any, cholesterol elevation from eating eggs.
"...if you want a quick test to judge whether a doctor is a good nutritionist, ask him what he thinks of eggs. If he insists that you must restrict your egg consumption, he's a poor nutritionist. If he says you must always make sure to include eggs in your diet, he's a good nutritionist. And if he says you should always include eggs in your diet unless you have a specific intolerance to them, he's an even better nutritionist."
-- Dr. Robert Atkins; Dr. Atkins Health Revolution, pp 235-236
"And all those high -quality proteins, which one is the very best?... the answer is the egg...
"If eggs are such a good source of essential amino acids, why does your conventional doctor tell you to eat them only occasionally? Because he or she thinks eggs raise cholesterol... however, there's very little connection between the cholesterol you eat and the cholesterol in your blood. I could cite dozens of studies that show... eating eggs actually improves your blood cholesterol profile.... In a 1994 study, twenty four adults added two eggs a day to their usual diets for six weeks. At the end of the period, their total cholesterol had increased by 4 percent. Their all-important HDL levels, however, were up 10 percent.
"Many patients that come to me... have eliminated eggs from their diet, in the mistaken belief that they're doing something positive for their health. One of the first things I recommend to them is to start eating eggs again, at least two a day."
-- Dr. Robert Atkins; Dr. Atkins Age-defying Diet Revolution, pp 94-95
"If eggs are such a good source of essential amino acids, why does your conventional doctor tell you to eat them only occasionally? Because he or she thinks eggs raise cholesterol... however, there's very little connection between the cholesterol you eat and the cholesterol in your blood. I could cite dozens of studies that show... eating eggs actually improves your blood cholesterol profile.... In a 1994 study, twenty four adults added two eggs a day to their usual diets for six weeks. At the end of the period, their total cholesterol had increased by 4 percent. Their all-important HDL levels, however, were up 10 percent.
"Many patients that come to me... have eliminated eggs from their diet, in the mistaken belief that they're doing something positive for their health. One of the first things I recommend to them is to start eating eggs again, at least two a day."
-- Dr. Robert Atkins; Dr. Atkins Age-defying Diet Revolution, pp 94-95
"Ironically, some of the most reliable facts about the diet-heart hypothesis have been consistently ignored by public-health authorities because they complicated the message, and the least reliable findings were adopted because they didn't. Dietary cholesterol, for instance, has an insignificant effect on blood cholesterol. It might elevate cholesterol levels in a small percentage of highly sensitive individuals, but for most of us, it's clinically meaningless. Nonetheless, the advice to eat less cholesterol - avoiding egg yolks for instance - remains gospel. Telling people they should worry about cholesterol in their blood but not in their diet has been deemed to confusing."
-- Gary Taubes; Good Calories, Bad Calories, page 19
-- Gary Taubes; Good Calories, Bad Calories, page 19
"The popular press is currently down on meat and eggs, but my personal observations and recent research implicate carbohydrates rather than dietary fat in the heart disease and abnormal blood lipid profiles of diabetics and even of non-diabetics. If you are frightened of these foods, you can restrict them, but depriving yourself will be unlikely to buy you anything.... Egg yolks, by the way, are a major source of nutrient lutien, which is beneficial to the retina of the eye. Organic eggs contain large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids which are good for your arteries."
-- Dr. Richard Bernstein; Dr. Bernstein's Diabetic Solution, pp 149-150
-- Dr. Richard Bernstein; Dr. Bernstein's Diabetic Solution, pp 149-150
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