Common Cholesterol myth cracked wide open

For decades, eggs have been cast as the culprit behind raised cholesterol and clogged arteries.

But new research published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found it’s not the cholesterol in eggs that’s the problem; it’s something else entirely.

Eggs are naturally high in dietary cholesterol, which makes health experts worry they would raise the bad LDL cholesterol in your blood.

The problem is, most egg eaters also eat lots of meat, making it hard to know whether the meat or the eggs are to blame.

To clear that up, scientists from the University of South Australia ran a carefully designed study.

They recruited 61 adults with similar LDL cholesterol levels and assigned them to three different five-week diets (with breaks in between each phase):

● High-cholesterol, low-saturated fat diet: 600mg cholesterol daily (including two eggs per day), with saturated fat at 6% of total energy.

● Low-cholesterol, high-saturated fat diet: 300mg cholesterol daily, no eggs, with saturated fat at 12%.

● High-cholesterol, high-saturated fat diet: 600mg cholesterol daily, only one egg per week, with saturated fat at 12%.

Forty-eight participants completed all three diets. Researchers measured LDL cholesterol and LDL particle size at the end of each phase.

The result? Eggs came out looking pretty good.

On the two-egg, low-saturated fat diet, LDL cholesterol dropped to 103.6 mg/dL—down from 109.3 mg/dL on the high-saturated fat control diet.

Even the low-cholesterol, high-saturated fat diet (which excluded eggs) didn’t do much to lower LDL (107.7 mg/dL).

In short: saturated fat intake was strongly linked to higher LDL cholesterol. Not dietary cholesterol.

Not eggs.

That said, the two-egg, low-saturated fat diet did lower large LDL particles while slightly raising small ones. And small LDL particles are more harmful. So, while eggs aren’t dangerous in moderation, they’re not exactly a cholesterol-lowering food either.

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