Thursday, February 12, 2009

Eggs won't hard boil your heart

Posted by Owen Morris on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM

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Listeners to yesterday's KCUR show Up to Date with Steve Kraske heard his guest, Dr. Michael Main, talk about cardiovascular disease. At one point a caller mentioned that his wife was growing chickens and wondered whether it would be all right for him to eat more eggs if he increased his dose of heart medicine.

Dr. Main can't give that sort of advice over the air so he wasn't too specific, but his answer was essentially no, the caller couldn't eat more eggs just because he took more medicine. Because eggs are high in cholesterol, cardiologists have been telling people with heart problems to avoid them, or severely cut back on them, for years.

But today, scientists in Britain released the largest study ever done on eggs and their relationship to heart conditions.

The findings show that eggs have little to no connection to cholesterol levels. From the BBC:

Researchers,

who analyzed several studies of egg nutrition, said the

idea that eating more than three eggs a week was bad for you was still

widespread.

But they said that was a misconception based on out-of-date

evidence... There is cholesterol present in eggs but this does not

usually make a great contribution to your level of blood

cholesterol.... The UK public do not need to be limiting the number of

eggs they eat --

indeed they can be encouraged to include them in a healthy diet as they

are one of nature's most nutritionally dense foods.


The study was done by the British Heart

Foundation and not some powerful egg lobby. The scientists go on to

say the biggest hurdle is getting people to quit believing eggs are

terrible for them. Nearly half of the British public believes eggs will

increase cholesterol levels and I'm sure numbers are the same, if not

higher, here in the States.

Ten-egg omelet here I come!

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