Eat Whole Eggs All Day and Throw Your Statins Away? 375x Increased Dietary Cholesterol Intake From Eggs Reduces Visceral Fat & Promotes Healthy Cholesterol Metabolism
Image 1: You better make sure you don't miss out on these delicious heart- and brain-healthy cholesterol bombs. Most of you will probably be familiar with the good old saying " An apple a day, keeps the doctor away! ", right? And if you are an otherwise healthy individual the micronutrients from the apple will probably really help you maintain this status. But what if the doctor was already there to put you on the healthy low fat diet, the negative health consequences of which I have addressed in yesterday's blogpost ? In that case, whole eggs probably provide a more promising escape route from that low-fat, high-carb trap - at least this is what the the results of a soon to be published study from the Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China would suggest ( Yang. 2012 ). Surprising(?) -9% belly-fat reduction on whole egg diet In their 60 to 90 day experiment, the Chinese researchers put a group of 8-week old Sprague-Dawley rats (n=18 for each group...