Five fried eggs?

[MontyVeda]

I remember the one a day thing from when i was a kid, in the 70s.... surely it's just old news... very old news.

 

[coffeejo]

I remember the one a day thing from when i was a kid, in the 70s.... surely it's just old news... very old news.

VERY old news, in every sense of the word. I also remember the Edwina Currie egg debacle in the 80s. We kept our own chickens at that time, who were all prolific layers, and we each had more than one egg every day in a vain attempt to stop the egg mountain becoming a mountain range.

One day, the "diet" news will be "all things in moderation" and we can carry on as we were...

 

[Dayvo]

Sorry, it's from the Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...reason-to-work-egg--lower-blood-pressure.html

 

[Citius]

Met a German doctor yesterday, looking as fit as a butcher's dog, who was tucking into a plate of FIVE fried eggs with bacon and mushrooms. Seeing my interest (I love eggs but five....?) he explained that most medical research being the bollocks that it is, shaped with statistical half-truths to fit the researcher's agenda, the current belief has come full circle and is now that eggs don't kill you with high cholesterol and in fact the new evil is carbohydrates.

What do we all think about this?

Surely the body can only process and absorb so much protein? Or is the benefit mostly from the fats in the yolks? Would you do just as well to go home and eat a good steak?

*heads off to raid Mrs Gti's supply of eggs for baking cakes and makes metal note to replace them before the next baking session*

Context is everything. Much would depend on what else he ate throughout the day. If he also ate the same meal for lunch and dinner, then maybe that's not so good...

 

[yello]

From the British Heart Foundation website, and dated 26 May 2015

https://www.bhf.org.uk/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2015/may/eggs-and-cholesterol

Recent research has also shown that moderate egg consumption - up to one a day - does not increase heart disease risk in healthy individuals and can be part of a healthy diet.

So it is still being said.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

From the British Heart Foundation website, and dated 26 May 2015

https://www.bhf.org.uk/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2015/may/eggs-and-cholesterol



So it is still being said.

Yup, and that's the sad thing.
Dietary cholesterol does NOT increase blood cholesterol.
Cholesterol is vital for brain function.
Cholesterol in the blood is NOT bad for you.
Older people with higher cholesterol are healthier than ones with lower cholesterol...etc etc.

 

[Diggs]

Well I've just had a very nice omlette for breakfast.
Having said that, given I'm popping up to the Billericay Beer Festival later, I expect an increased intake of carbohydrates

 

[The Jogger]

This is a thread I started on this last year, well debated the cholesterol con.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/low-carb-high-fat.163780/

 

[theloafer]

the harbour café in Eyemouth dose a 4 egg sandwich

 

[Globalti]

DISGRACEFUL! What a senseless waste of four eggs.

There's no ketchup OR bacon!

 

[ayceejay]

I wonder what this news will do to those nice people who make the medicine that lowers cholesterol?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I wonder what this news will do to those nice people who make the medicine that lowers cholesterol?

You don't have to wonder. They simply market their products harder and keep on hammering on the cholesterol issue (which is very easy if governments support you). In addition, they then broaden the base for Lipitol (and equivalents) by prescribing it to women and children as young as 9. They have the doctors so brain-washed that some routinely prescribe it to their middle-aged patients no matter what their real risk for a heart attack is.

 

[sidevalve]

Ahh -the men in white coats. Give 'em time and they'll be telling us all to go back to the woodbines soon.

 

[ayceejay]

I had a cholesterol test and discovered that my score was negligible - the doctor wanted me to take Lipitol anyway "just on case" as men of my age are prone, I refused and checked the side effects when I got home. When I found that not only was he wanting to prescribe a medication I didn't need but also one that would most likely cause problem I was not very happy.

 

[tyred]

Ahh -the men in white coats. Give 'em time and they'll be telling us all to go back to the woodbines soon.

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