Friday, April 16, 2010

Look Up: Cholesterol Again

Still makes me mad when I hear eggs are bad for you, but it's not like I'm a scientist, so I'm gonna look for more info.

Is dietary cholesterol bad for you?
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-full-story/index.html
"How cholesterol and fat in food affect blood levels
The types of fat in the diet determine to a large extent the amount of total and LDL cholesterol in the bloodstream. Cholesterol in food matters, too, but not nearly as much."

http://www.foodmarketexchange.com/datacenter/industry/article/idf_shrimp_drains.htm
The Rockefeller University Study
A study performed in the mid 1990s at Rockefeller University (New York, USA) concluded that eating steamed shrimp raised blood cholesterol levels when compared with a low-cholesterol diet. However, the shrimp diet raised levels of HDL (the "good" cholesterol) more than it increased levels of LDL (the "bad" cholesterol"), and the resulting HDL to LDL ratio was favorable. Triglycerides were also lower on this diet when compared to an egg-based diet with equal amounts of cholesterol.

Mayne hold up.
http://health.ninemsn.com.au/whatsgoodforyou/theshow/693988/are-eggs-bad-for-your-heart
Sounds really unprofessional but was just a little experiment, and the results say eggs in the diet lowers some cholesterol reading where above 4 is high.

4 comments:

  1. ask the doctor and see what he says about eggs

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  2. scared, cause i know he's old school, and i don't want him to be wrong

    i asked him what causes stomach ulcers and the first thing he said was too much alcohol

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  3. is he in the school that 2 drinks a day is good for your health in the long run? bc from all the recent research that seems to be pretty widely adopted....

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  4. i've been doing my own experiments with that

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