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Eggs Good For Your Heart? Not Likely!By Martha RosenbergThis week consumers are hearing the news that “an egg a day may reduce heart disease risk.†Cynics might ask does a cigarette a day reduce the risk of lung cancer too?The truth is the chicken egg has the highest cholesterol of any other foodstuff—packing as much as 275 mg of cholesterol. In 2008, the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation reported that just one egg a day increased the risk of heart failure in a group of doctors studied. And in 2010, the Canadian Journal of Cardiology lamented the “wide- spread misconception . . . that consumption of dietary cholesterol and egg yolks is harmless.†The article further cautioned that “stopping the consumption of egg yolks after a stroke or myocardial infarction [heart attack] would be like quitting smoking after a diagnosis of lung cancer: a necessary action, but late.â€Eggs also have a link to ovarian cancer, says an article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, and the culprit is not necessarily cholesterol. “It seems possible that eating eggs regularly is causally linked to the occurrence of a proportion of cancers of the ovary, perhaps as many as 40 percent, among women who eat at least 1 egg a week,†wrote the authors. In one study the article cites, three eggs per week increased ovarian-cancer mortality three-fold, compared with less than one egg per week.Read more at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/eggs-good-for-your-heart-not-likely_2542495.html
Life will kill you.
Eggs bad......eggs good.........eggs badCoffee bad.........coffee good.........coffee badBacon bad ...........well okay they never said bacon was good, point is almost annually someone turns out a study that flips the thinking on a food or drink. I don't care any more, I will eat and drink what I want in moderation and enjoy life and not fear the Reaper otherwise why bother?
Let me help you with that. Don't say I never did anything for you.https://www.baconismagic.ca/guest-posts/bacon-is-healthy/
Anyway, I may be remembering wrong, but I'm pretty sure the saying goes "Eggs, eggs, good for the heart..."