cole s. terrell

[rone]

As i enter fuddiduddihood (AKA my fourth decade of life), i've gained nearly 20 pounds in the last two years, and now i have high cholesterol (229 total, and "bad" cholesterol was high on its own, but the good/bad ratio was OK), which means cutting back on my profligate intake of sweet, delicious pork, as well as eggs (and ikkyu2 has made it even worse for me by pointing out that one egg yolk contains a week's worth of cholesterol). It should also mean i will start exercising, but who am i kidding? I'll just cut back on the bad stuff and eat Cheerios.

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[fredfred.livejournal.com]

Eggs contain 250 mg cholesterol per.

Heart-healthy diets (like the American Heart Association's) recommend 200-300 mg of cholesterol per day.

Dunno where ikkyu2 is getting his figures, but that sez one egg max per day (averaged), depending on other sweet, sweet meats.

And some people don't even think that dietary cholesterol has much effect on blood cholesterol levels.

References:
http://www.ivillage.com/food/experts/nutrition/articles/0,5370,5344,00.html
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4547
http://www.newsday.com/features/food/ny-p2foodmain3212551apr09,0,1678702.story?coll=ny-features-headlines

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I should know better than to trust a neurologist with dietary concerns.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

a) MONEY FUCKS SCIENCE. Viz: You can't even discover how much cholesterol there is in the median egg. The egg lobby says 70 mg. God knows how they're measuring it. If they work the way the drug companies do, they have an office-building somewhere full of people whose only occupation is to hunt out people doing research on eggs and offer to fund their next study - with the unspoken caveat that, if it's egg-friendly, it'll lead to more and more egg-study funding. Scientists like funding.

b) You can't avoid cholesterol, unless you're vegan. If you eat an egg, you're going to wind up way over your AHA cholesterol limit for that day. End of story.