Toss that pale, bland egg white omelet into the garbage, because cholesterol, a former dietary bogeyman is coming off the blacklist.
That’s right the nation’s top nutrition advisory panel has decided to drop its caution about eating cholesterol-laden food, a move that could undo almost 40 years of government warnings about its consumption.
The group’s finding that cholesterol in the diet need no longer be considered a “nutrient of concern” stands in contrast to the committee’s findings five years ago, the last time it convened. During those proceedings, as in previous years, the panel deemed the issue of excess cholesterol in the American diet a public health concern.
The Washington Post reports:
“…Many have viewed the evidence against cholesterol as weak, at best. As late as 2013, a task force arranged by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association looked at the dietary cholesterol studies. The group found that there was “insufficient evidence” to make a recommendation. Many of the studies that had been done, the task force said, were too broad to single out cholesterol.
“Looking back at the literature, we just couldn’t see the kind of science that would support dietary restrictions,” said Robert Eckel, the co-chair of the task force and a medical professor at the University of Colorado.” read the rest here…
According to the NationalReview.com:
“The original study that created this false alarm about fat, dairy, eggs, and other high-cholesterol food was conducted in the 1950s by Ancel Keys, a physiologist who studied cardiovascular disease. His seminal study — the “Seven Countries Study” – is now widely dismissed as faulty for a variety of reasons. Michael Brendan Dougherty at The Week provides a tidy summery of this study and its faults:
“The scares about cholesterol and fat date back to the middle of the last century. An enterprising physiologist, Ancel Keys, took a large government grant and conducted his famous study on diet and health. The whole thing was botched. He purposely excluded countries like France, Germany, and Switzerland that had a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet but better health outcomes than the U.S. He surveyed the diet of Greeks during Lent, when they were abstaining from meat and dairy. The study did not even look at the effect of different levels of dietary sugar, even though the data was available.
But Keys got the result that he had preached for years. Not long after, the AHA embraced the findings, and so, too, did the Food and Drug Administration.”
Some shrug at these government-issued dietary guidelines and dismiss them as a tired and largely ignored bureaucratic practice, but the guidelines have a big impact. They influence the culture and medical community, as well as dictate how government feeding programs will operate for children, the military, and the poor.”
The scary part about this ‘mistake’ is that cholesterol plays an integral part in our health, yes that is right our health specifically our brain’s health. It turns out that lower cholesterol levels are strongly associated with increased risk for becoming demented. Again, the lower the cholesterol the higher the risk for becoming demented.
In this video we will take a look at some of the science that will hopefully change your mind about this brain protective chemical.
