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Hello World! Hope you are doing well today. I am going to talk about eggs in this post. Do you eat eggs? And, have you ever wondered if they harm your heart? I believe in moderation when eating something you are unsure of, but I like eggs so I eat them and I limit eggs to a minimum per week. I used to limit it to four eggs per week, but lately, I just don’t seem to want to eat them much. Seems there isn’t much we can eat anymore without it doing some harm. Not sure there is an answer for us…
The mighty egg is healthy to your body as it provides nutrients you need to prevent depression or amxiety, but you also need to eat them in moderation.
Do Eggs Really Damage Your Heart Health?
Let’s face it: the controversy around eggs and whether they damage the health of your cardiovascular system has been around for years. On one side people claim that their relatively high amount of cholesterol pushes our own cholesterol levels off the charts; and that cholesterol can seriously harm your health. On the other side, people say that the cholesterol we eat doesn’t affect our cholesterol levels or that we shouldn’t concern ourselves with cholesterol because it is harmless. What’s a person to believe?
Well, I don’t think it’s harmless, but there is a middle road here as well. I am not an alarmist as quitting eating everything they say is bad for us, wouldn’t leave us many options, would it?
cute little eggs that we may not eat, but fun at Easter.
Sorting out the answer to that question
could have widespread public health implications when you consider that the average American eats 280 eggs per year, which works out to nearly 5-1/2 eggs per week. To say that is a lot of eggs would definitely be an understatement.
New research may be just what we need to determine which side of the argument is correct.
According to a new large-scale study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which reviewed the eating habits and heart health implications of 29,615 adults, researchers found eating eggs definitely has an impact on your heart health and your risk of death from heart disease.
According to the scientists,
eating 3 or more eggs weekly significantly increases the risk of heart disease and early death. Eating 2 eggs daily was enough to increase the risk of heart disease by a whopping 27% and also increased your risk of death from any cause. Considering that forms the average breakfast for many people across North America and around the world, that’s a disturbing finding with massive potential public health consequences.
When you were growing up, did you ever think bacon & eggs was a bad combo? Now, we know that HOW we prepare our food is also important.
Well, these days, I eat less than 2 eggs per week so I guess I am now out of the danger zone, so what is the alternative?
Of course, the controversy persists.
And, experts on both sides of the table continue to debate the study findings, particularly in light of conflicting earlier studies. But, the side of this study helps to put some of the argument behind us. It’s hard to argue with these results.
And, as for the cholesterol argument
and whether it is actually bad for us: well, there’s no end to the debate there either. The reality is that your body needs cholesterol from which to make hormones, manufacture vitamin D, provide structure to your cellular walls and repair damage to your blood vessels; however, it doesn’t need the high levels many people are currently facing.
High levels of cholesterol have been linked to heart disease but in more recent research have also been linked to other serious illness, including Alzheimer’s and cancer.
Excess cholesterol can clog your arteries
by causing them to become narrow and restricting your blood flow through them, making us vulnerable to heart disease. Of course, there are many other factors involved with heart disease.
Do You have a Healthy Heart?
Recent research published in the medical journal Nature Chemistry found that cholesterol also plays a causative role in Alzheimer’s. The scientists found that excessive cholesterol can act as a catalyst for causing beta-amyloid plaques to form in your brain—a key causal factor in Alzheimer’s disease. When beta-amyloid plaques build up they impede healthy brain functioning and even kill healthy brain cells.
Excessively high levels of cholesterol
have also been linked to cancer. According to a study published in the medical journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers found that dietary cholesterol was linked to an increase in the proliferation of some intestinal cells (stem cells) that resulted in a significantly increased risk of the formation of tumors in your intestines. Their results suggest that dietary cholesterol is not the harmless stuff most of us have been recently taught to believe, and indeed, which many internet sites continue to claim. But, perhaps most shocking was the fact that animal subjects eating a high fat (and high cholesterol) diet had a whopping 100-fold increase in their tumor formation.
Keep your brain young & healthy! Drink coffee or tea & Take nature walks to reduce your negative thinking.AND stay away from MSG
While egg-lovers
may try to hold on to their favorite breakfast foods at any cost, it seems that the jury is in on eggs and their link to heart disease.
Well, this does not make me feel good because I like eggs. I’ll have to think about this one for a while and decide what I want to do. If we all cut out every food that they say is bad for us, we’d starve to death or become rabbits eating carrots… While I firmly believe in a healthy diet, I also believe in moderation for most foods. Overeating ANY food is not good for you.
There are, of course, no brainers (no pun intended),
like unhealthy fried foods and processed food, but I believe eating eggs in moderation is okay… I’ll need to do more research about this…
Let me know your thoughts about the mighty egg. You can leave a message below and let me know if you like eggs…
Have a great healthy day!
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