Does Size Matter? For Cholesterol It Really Doesn’t
Does Size Matter? For Cholesterol It Really Doesn’t
Please realize that industry is out to sell you their products, and many times at your expense. You tell me where the egg industry fits in. I was out grocery shopping recently and I noticed a carton of eggs that was labeled vegetarian eggs. I had to do a double take, vegetarian eggs?
I thought the egg industry found a way to make eggs out of vegetables. No I didn’t, and I am just making light of the situation. The makers of the eggs wanted to associate something that had harmful properties with something that had healing properties, so the maker married eggs with vegetables.
Eggs should never be considered “vegetarian” because eggs contain cholesterol, while vegetables do not contain cholesterol. The egg industry knows there is a strong association between eggs and cholesterol so the industry does what it can do to minimize their association.
High LDL cholesterol levels are associated with heart disease and heart attacks, so the egg industry would like to minimize its association with LDL cholesterol. Egg research has been done and framed in a way that doesn’t honestly inform consumers and doesn’t have the consumers best interest at hand. Professor Hernandez, who had received nearly a half million dollars form the egg industry, represented this idea when she minimized the negative effect of the cholesterol in eggs cholesterol.
Though eggs raise cholesterol levels, professor Hernandez pointed out in her studies that eggs contain large fluffy LDL cholesterol, which are not as bad as small dense LDL. Not as bad does not mean “not bad,” unless you are trying to find a way justify putting things into your body that are harmful to it.
Large LDL only raises heart disease risk by 44% and small LDL raises heart disease risk by 66%. 66% is a lot! See how easily the focus was taken off 44%. A 44% raise in heart disease risk is bad also, not just as bad as a 66% increase. It doesn’t matter if the LDL is small or large, they both raise the risk of heart disease. Dr. Greger breaks down the manipulated research in the video.
Tags: Cholesterol, heart disease
