A group of Finnish researchers made a decision to debunk this myth by conducting an investigation on over 1,000 men of good health condition, from 42 to 60 years old.
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“Dietary cholesterol does not translate into high levels of blood cholesterol”, said Dr. Luc Djoussé, an associate professor and heart disease researcher at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, via TIME.
The findings of the study suggested that there was no link between cardiovascular disease and total cholesterol or egg consumption in carriers of ApoE4 or non-carriers. Apparently, the new study carried out by a team at the University of Eastern Finland and published this week in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition points out that the health community might have been wrong on the issue.
In the majority of population, dietary cholesterol affects serum cholesterol levels only a little, and few studies have linked the intake of dietary cholesterol to an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases.
The main author of the study, Dr. Jyrki Virtanen of the University of Eastern Finland, has said that just pointing out to one aspect of food like an egg yolk does not give us a clear indication of to what kind of impact the food has our health.
Finnish researchers have found that moderate egg yolk consumption does not lead to bad health consequences on the long run. The cholesterol intake was primarily taken from consuming four eggs a week.
This was a 21-year long study, during which the participants’ diets were examined through a series of questions and other methods of research.
A brand new study, coming all the way from the frozen North, has managed to prove that eggs, no matter how they are consumed, are in no way contributing to heart diseases. It was generally known that high cholesterol foods and heart attacks are closely connected. As Virtanen stated, it’s one thing to consume a hard-boiled egg at breakfast, but it’s entirely another when you decide to use fat-enriched butter, a side of bacon or some buttery croissants.
Eggs also have another powerful nutrient, which is Vitamin B2. But a recent study found that there’s not enough evidence to back the association between egg yolk consumption and high risk of heart disease.
There’s more on cholesterol and heart health at the American Heart Association. Some say eating eggs regularly is bad, while others think it should be part of the usual diet. This applied regardless whether the men had the ApoE4 gene or not. But, the study authors determined that neither egg habits, nor overall cholesterol consumption, had any bearing on heart attack risk or the risk for hardening of the arterial walls.
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As it turns out, a new study reveals that egg yolks are not as unhealthy as we thought it to be.
