In article >,
Dan Abel > wrote:
>> Here's just one of many articles on eggs and cholesterol
>> http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art16140.asp
>
>I found the above article to be very misleading. I'm sure that it is
>factually true, but still very misleading.
>
>The current recommendation of the AHA (American Heart Association) is:
>
>http://www.americanheart.org/present...tifier=3001455

That's even more misleading. As usual, the AHA seems far behind the
times regarding proper nutrition, although overall the guidelines
are sound. It's telling that they don't even know enough to
differentiate betweeh HDL and LDL cholesterol -- let alone leaving
out any mention of research pertaining to the LDL/HDL ratio, which
appears to be more important than overall count. Or maybe they do
know better but the article dumbs down the subject for the general
public.

See for example: http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abst...9/suppl_5/540S
Granted, it's written by a guy from the egg industry, but at least it's
in a respectable journal.

-A

axlq wrote:
> In article >,
> Dan Abel > wrote:
> >> Here's just one of many articles on eggs and cholesterol
> >> http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art16140.asp
> >
> >I found the above article to be very misleading. I'm sure that it is
> >factually true, but still very misleading.
> >
> >The current recommendation of the AHA (American Heart Association) is:
> >
> >http://www.americanheart.org/present...tifier=3001455
>
> That's even more misleading. As usual, the AHA seems far behind the
> times regarding proper nutrition, although overall the guidelines
> are sound. It's telling that they don't even know enough to
> differentiate betweeh HDL and LDL cholesterol -- let alone leaving
> out any mention of research pertaining to the LDL/HDL ratio, which
> appears to be more important than overall count. Or maybe they do
> know better but the article dumbs down the subject for the general
> public.
>
> See for example: http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abst...9/suppl_5/540S
> Granted, it's written by a guy from the egg industry, but at least it's
> in a respectable journal.

I agree. The only meaningful numbers are HDL/LDL and HDL/trigycerides.
High HDL levels are good. If your "cholesterol" were high due to
extremely high HDL levels, you're better off than if your "cholesterol"
levels were low and your HDL levels were very low.
Eggs are healthy food, and egg yolks are positively delicious. The AHA
is behind the times, as is the American Diabetes Assn. and the fact
that they only recently started paying heed to the glycemic index, and
still haven't embraced the ketogenic diet as one of the ways to deal
with diabetes, at least for some people.
Are you familiar with policosanol?
>
> -A

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