cybercat wrote:
> "ravenlynne" > wrote
>>
>> Hmm...I wonder if it's still true that you're only supposed to eat 3
>> a week for cholesterol concerns...
>>
>
> I never paid attention to that advice--for twenty years--and have low
> LDL and very high HDL, the good kind. It's my understanding that
> the "authorities" have changed their tune in two ways: first, they
> admit that only 40% of your total cholesterol comes from diet, the
> rest is made by your own body, and this is the kind that tends to go
> sky
> high and cause problems; and second, that eggs in and of them
> selves are not bad, it is the things we eat with them--things full
> of saturated fat like bacon, ham, cheese--that are bad for us
> in combination with high cholesterol foods.
>
> The thing is, the nutrition in them is great, and the yolks, long seen
> as the big culprits, contain several substances that actually fight
> high cholesterol--such as vitamin e and lecithin.
>
> I have a good friend who was always hyper-aware of fat, ate
> low fat, no eggs, exercised all the time, and was on cholesterol
> medication by the age of 30, with dangerously high cholesterol.
>
> That convinced me that a lot of cholesterol trouble is hereditary.

My husband eats eggs every morning - and sometimes up to 5 or 6 at a time!
He's got perfectly normal cholesterol levels. My levels, and I don't eat
eggs, are slightly elevated. I don't know why. I pretty much eat fish and
veggies.

kili