Absurd New Study Claims Eating Egg
Yolks Is “Nearly as Dangerous as Smoking Cigarettes”
Did you
read the sensational media headlines reporting that eating egg yolks increased
carotid plaque and thus increases the risk of heart attack and stroke?
The
authors of the “study” (really a simple questionnaire) found that “carotid
plaque area increased linearly with age after age 40, but increased
exponentially with pack-years of smoking and with egg-yolk years.” This led
them to form a hypothesis—that egg yolks may cause plaque in much the way
cigarette smoking does—and that regular consumption of egg yolks should be
avoided by persons at risk of cardiovascular disease.
This is
how medical myths start to take hold. This is like other medical myths full of
junk science, biased views and promoted by those with monetary interests. This
“study” may do to eggs what statin drugs (Lipitor) did to cholesterol. Eggs
aren’t dangerous, unless they are spoiled. Eggs are in fact a health food and
cholesterol is in fact a potent antioxidant needed for maintain healthy cells.
In fact: low cholesterol is more
dangerous than high cholesterol.
Don’t
believe me? It is all documented in the leading scientific medical journals-you
can read more on my past blog:
Or in my
book, Heart Disease What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You.
This study
and the media love fest is nothing more than yellow journalism.
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Don’t
lump the tasty egg, the all purpose omelette, the Sunday morning quish, and the
staple of many gourmet cooking sauces in with a known health robbing, cancer
causing, inflammation generating, habit-smoking cigarettes.
This is
as stupid as saying you shouldn’t eat any fat-remember the low fat, high carb
diet days when we spent a decade gaining more weight than ever and drove our
type II diabetes cases to record highs?
Medical
misinformation creates medical myths. Please don’t be fooled by this “study”
eat all the eggs you want.
