{"id":23028,"date":"2020-01-24T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/articles-4260-en\/the-reason-big-pharma-and-big-food-want-you-to-think-eggs-are-bad-and-why-they-are-not\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:06:44","slug":"the-reason-big-pharma-and-big-food-want-you-to-think-eggs-are-bad-and-why-they-are-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-reason-big-pharma-and-big-food-want-you-to-think-eggs-are-bad-and-why-they-are-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason Big Pharma and big food want you to think eggs are bad \u2013 and why they are not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads5\/ianuarie 2020\/24\/22086_1.jpg\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    Time Magazine cover from 1984, demonizing eggs to promote<br \/>\nthe cholesterol theory of heart disease and fuel a multi-billion dollar statin drug<br \/>\nindustry.<\/p>\n<p>  Ever since the cholesterol theory of heart disease was created<br \/>\nduring the 1970s and 1980s, eggs have been vilified as a potential threat for not only heart<br \/>\ndisease, but more recently even diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Official institutional warnings of egg consumption continue,<br \/>\neven as the cholesterol theory of heart disease is crumbling with the emerging unbiased science<br \/>\nproving otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Diabetes type 2 has become epidemic in cultures that have<br \/>\nembraced western processed food diets. There have been some epidemiological surveys that have<br \/>\nmanaged to associate egg consumption with an increased risk of diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Those seem to be publicized more than studies that have the<br \/>\ndifferent conclusions. Finland has recently shown other conclusions with both a large, unbiased<br \/>\nepidemiological study and a follow-up study that analyzed metabolic features among egg<br \/>\neaters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Both concluded that those who enjoy eggs in their diet have<br \/>\nless risk of diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>The Epidemiological Finnish Study That Went Against<br \/>\nOfficial Nutritional Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  An epidemiological survey study inspires the often repeated<br \/>\nadage &#8220;association does not mean causation.&#8221; But association serves as an<br \/>\nimpetus for &#8220;further studies&#8221; that become laboratory and clinical in nature.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The following two studies illustrate this very dynamic, both<br \/>\nwithin the same Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease (KIHD) Risk Factor Study cohort.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  In 2015, researchers of the University of Eastern Finland<br \/>\nconcluded their tracking of 2,342 men, aged 42-60, from the KIHD cohort assembled during the<br \/>\nearly 1980s to analyze dietary effects on chronic diseases and heart health.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The title of their report that was published by the The<br \/>\nAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition in April of 2015 is <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajcn\/article\/101\/5\/1088\/4577563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egg consumption<br \/>\nand risk of incident type 2 diabetes in men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor<br \/>\nStudy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Records of medical examinations taken at the four and 11-year<br \/>\npoints, and at this cohort&#8217;s 20-year endpoint (2006-2008), were made available for<br \/>\nresearchers worldwide. So far the KIHD project has been used for 500 international<br \/>\nstudies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  After already using this cohort to determined that egg<br \/>\nconsumption did not create cardiovascular disease, the Eastern Finland University researchers<br \/>\ndecided to analyze the glucose measurements and insulin resistance markers taken from<br \/>\nexaminations every few years until the cohort&#8217;s endpoint 20 years later.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Those who were scrutinized for metabolic disorders, insulin<br \/>\nresistance, and serum glucose levels, all markers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/diabetes\/borderline-diabetes-know-the-signs#risk-&#xD;&#xA;factors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-diabetes<\/a> and diabetes 2, consumed one egg a day on average.<br \/>\nThis is a higher egg count than many other similar studies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  From the study&#8217;s text:<br \/>\n  &#8220;&#8230; because the evidence on the impact of egg<br \/>\nconsumption on the risk of T2D [type 2 diabetes] is limited and mixed, we investigated the<br \/>\nassociation between egg consumption and risk of incident T2D in middle-aged and older men from<br \/>\neastern Finland.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    We previously showed that egg consumption was not<br \/>\nassociated with carotid atherosclerosis or risk of myocardial infarction in this study<br \/>\npopulation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    In secondary analyses we also investigated the association<br \/>\nof egg consumption with plasma glucose, serum insulin, and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) at<br \/>\nbaseline and in a subgroup after 4 y [years] of follow-up.&#8221;<br \/>\n  &#160;<br \/>\n  If you go to the full study <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajcn\/article\/101\/5\/1088\/4577563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text available<br \/>\nhere<\/a>, you&#8217;ll discover the details that led to these researchers concluding:<br \/>\n  Higher egg intake was associated with a lower risk of T2D<br \/>\n[type 2 diabetes] in this cohort of middle-aged and older men.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Somehow, an association between high cholesterol serum<br \/>\nreadings and diabetes had been made in the past by the &#8220;cholesterol creates cardiovascular<br \/>\ndisease&#8221; crowd.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The mounting evidence that cholesterol is vital for health and<br \/>\nthat people with low cholesterol have more health issues and shorter lives than those with high<br \/>\ncholesterol is largely ignored when it comes to corporate-sponsored &#8220;mainstream&#8221;<br \/>\nmedia coverage.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Because egg yolks are high in cholesterol, eggs remain a wrong<br \/>\ntarget with the mainstream media and official nutritional institutions who are in lockstep with<br \/>\nthe cholesterol con.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  To now admit that the science does not support the cholesterol<br \/>\ntheory of heart disease would be akin to destroying Big Pharma&#8217;s most profitable line of<br \/>\ndrugs: statins.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Combining the cholesterol\/saturated fat theory of heart<br \/>\ndisease with obesity and metabolic disorders leading to diabetes was probably created and<br \/>\nexploited as a distraction from the real dietary issues creating these unhealthy conditions:<br \/>\nProcessed trans-fatty acid processed vegetable oils used to replace healthy saturated fats and<br \/>\nheavy sugar consumption.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Recent Serum Analysis Study Confirmed the Outcome of<br \/>\nthe Prior Epidemiological Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The University of Eastern Finland then followed the 2015 study<br \/>\nto actually measure metabolic markers that signal metabolic dysfunction or metabolic syndrome<br \/>\nleading to diabetes 2 to further understand how eggs help prevent diabetes 2 instead of causing<br \/>\nit.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  This study is titled <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/mnfr.201800605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metabolic<br \/>\nProfiling of High Egg Consumption and the Associated Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in<br \/>\nMiddle\u2010Aged Finnish Men<\/a>. It was published on December 12, 2018, in the journal<br \/>\nMolecular Nutrition.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  This study involved a smaller number of participants from the<br \/>\nlarge KIHD cohort, 239, who were divided into four groups from their baseline serum metabolic<br \/>\nreadings to their outcomes after the 20-year study.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The four groups were divided according to those who ate more<br \/>\neggs, one a day, or fewer eggs, two per week, and whether each group remained healthy or<br \/>\ndeveloped type 2 diabetes over the length of this 20-year KIHD study.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads5\/ianuarie 2020\/24\/22086_2.jpg\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  University of Eastern Finland researcher Stefania Noerman<br \/>\nstated:<br \/>\n  &#8220;The purpose of the current study was to explore<br \/>\npotential compounds that could explain this [inverted] association using non-targeted<br \/>\nmetabolomics, a technique that enables a broad profiling of chemicals in a<br \/>\nsample.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The researchers used non-targeted LC\u2010MS\u2010based<br \/>\nmetabolic profiling which uses ultra performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass<br \/>\nspectrometry (UPLC-MS). It is a powerful technique to investigate metabolism.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Potential compounds such as baseline tyrosine levels, along<br \/>\nwith an unknown hexose\u2010containing compound and other predominant metabolites, can predict<br \/>\ntype 2 diabetes cases. The researchers discovered an inverse relationship.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The group that consumed more eggs had lower diabetes<br \/>\npredictive metabolite readings than the group that ate fewer eggs. The researchers<br \/>\nconcluded:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Our current findings may underline some potential<br \/>\nmetabolites that can explain how egg intake is associated with a lower risk of T2D [type 2<br \/>\ndiabetes].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The only thing that remains that allows those who enjoy eggs<br \/>\nto feel comfortable is how to choose the eggs that are the healthiest. The cheapest, most common<br \/>\neggs are from mass producers who confine their hens to cages in large warehouses. And they are<br \/>\nthe ones that are most often recalled for salmonella.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Look for eggs from cage-free and pastured chickens.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>yogaesoteric<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>January 24, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  &#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine cover from 1984, demonizing eggs to promote the cholesterol theory of heart disease and fuel a multi-billion dollar statin drug industry. Ever since the cholesterol theory of heart disease was created during the 1970s and 1980s, eggs have been vilified as a potential threat for not only heart disease, but more recently even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-4260-en-health-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}