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Eggs Don’t Cause Heart Attacks – Sugar Does

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47 pointsThomPete20 comments

I don't understand the need to create this false dichotomy. Eggs _do_ increase cholesterol, which leads to heart attacks. So does sugar.

I thought that cholesterol -> heart attacks was found to all be bupkis a while ago.

Found to be bupkis by who? Elevated LDL increases heart disease risk in women from 44% (for large LDL) to 63% (small LDL).

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19204302

Dietary cholesterol and not blood levels.

I think that dietary cholesterol was given a bad rap. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751443

Cholesterol levels in your blood are correlated with high risk of heart attack.

As I understand it, higher cholesterol levels in your blood are a response to arterial damage - damage caused by sugar among other things (I guess). Eggs aren't causing high cholesterol any more than bandages cause scraped knees.

Eggs are cholesterol you eat, or dietary cholesterol. DC has been shown to have little or nothing to do with the amount of cholesterol in your blood.

This is pretty commonly believed. I'm not sure where exactly this belief comes from, though, as there's really no credible nutritionist supporting this. Eating foods high in cholesterol is a direct cause of increased cholesterol in your blood.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21076725

Thank you for that source. It was indeed my impression that dietary cholesterol had been "exonerated." I actually changed my diet recently because of those misleading news (started eating whole eggs and bacon again and even cooking with lard).

Harvard Medical School seems pretty credible to me. http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/panel-suggests-stop-warni...

Good link. The problem is most people think that blood cholesterol all comes from diet. But the link explains most of it is produced by the body itself.

Anidote of one. I gave up carbs aka sugar and went low carb. I eat two eggs most days. Doctor took me off of niacin which was supposed to raise my HDL. In the 18 months since this change my blood chemistry is the best it has ever been.

So while my experience does not make a valid study it is my feedback loop.

I have lost 47 lbs and am slowly still losing.

I am under two doctors care. Primary and Cardio. Both support and encourage my new lifestyle.

My primary declares that I am no longer prediabetic.

I feel better, sleep better, think better. For the record I am 63 years old.

From what I understand, there's good and bad cholesterol, and eggs are the good kind. Sugar raises the bad kind.

This article offers nothing new and is written to sell this guy's "blood sugar detox" book.

Yes, I agree. But I also agree his hypothesis is sound, and the more voices that speak is the better off we all are as more ears will hear it.

That line of thinking is pragmatically equivalent to "let whoever spams the most win"

I can't take the hypothesis seriously when it is at least partially framed by this dude's desire to sell books. The "new study" he references in the beginning of the article isn't even new; it's 3 years old. Perhaps my back is up because the book has the baity word "detox" in the title.

This has been known by some people for a long time, but as far as I know, US food products still contain ridiculous amounts of sugar. Until that changes, more attention is clearly needed.

https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/y76i3/bad_news_for_keto...

https://m.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/3oyilq/analysisevidence...

Tangental but relevant: Vitamin K2 appears to be worth supplementing in this regard:

http://vitamink2.org/effect-vitamin-k2-progression-atheroscl...

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