Put down that egg-white omelet. Whole eggs aren’t going to give you a heart attack.
So says the government now, after 40 years of warning that eggs are killing you, and funding bad research to “confirm” that they do, and employing experts to shout down nutritionists who say they don’t.
The Washington Post report on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s revisions soft-pedals the change on cholesterol.
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…
The greater danger in this regard, these experts believe, lies not in products such as eggs, shrimp, or lobster, which are high in cholesterol, but in too many servings of foods heavy with saturated fats, such as fatty meats, whole milk, and butter.
Here’s a bet: Someday saturated fats — full fat butter, whole milk, tallow, and other animal fats — will be welcomed back, just as cholesterol has been. Until then, plenty of damage will be done to our health and the way we eat.
The American Heart Association and the U.S. government have been recommending a low-cholesterol, low-saturated fat diet for more than half a century. In 1961, when the AHA’s guidelines first came out, one in seven Americans were obese. Now one in three are.
via The glorious return of the egg: Why Uncle Sam is a horrible nutritionist.
