“Eggs and Arterial Function”
It was done on a group of men and women eating the standard American diet——overweight, normal cholesterol, (which is to say extremely high cholesterol), LDL levels twice as high as could be considered optimal.
See, it’s often not appreciated that the average blood cholesterol level in the United States, the so-called normal level, has actually been abnormal, accelerating heart disease and putting a large fraction of the so-called normal population at a higher risk for coronary heart disease, our No.1 killer.
When the addition of eggs didn’t make the arterial function worse than it already was, they concluded that short-term egg consumption does not adversely affect endothelial function in healthy adults.
They report that egg consumption had no effects on endothelial function…as compared to sausage and cheese. Compared to the ingestion of a sausage and cheese breakfast sandwich!
Yet, instead of sounding the alarm that eating eggs is as bad for arterial function as a McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin, they conclude egg consumption was found to be non-detrimental to endothelial function and cholesterol as well.
Why didn’t it get even worse?
Because there’s a plateau effect, you can basically max out on cholesterol absorption. After a certain level of intake, it’s just another match to the fire. If you’re already consuming the standard American diet averaging 400 mg of cholesterol daily, even add two jumbo eggs to one’s diet, and it may already be a lost cause.
But in people trying to eat healthy, those two eggs could shoot their cholesterol up 20 points, where as a fat-free, cholesterol-free egg substitute was beneficial. So, NOT eating eggs lowered cholesterol levels.
NOT eating eggs improved endothelial function— and that’s what these people needed. Their arteries were already hurting, they needed something to bring the fire down, not throw more matches at it.
“鸡蛋和动脉功能”
这项研究是基于一组接受标准美国膳食的男女所进行的。这些测试者均体重超重，体内胆固醇含量处于正常值（也就是说实际上他们的体内胆固醇含量非常高），但他们的LDL值（坏胆固醇值）却很高，已是理想推荐值的两倍了。
所以，人们通常没有意识到，美国人的平均胆固醇值（所谓的正常值）实际上是异常的，这些胆固醇加剧了心脏病的发作，并提高了很大一部分所谓的正常人患上冠心病的风险，而冠心病正是我们人类健康的头号杀手。
当在膳食中添加鸡蛋并没有使动脉功能进一步恶化的时候，鸡蛋委员会得出的结论是，短期内食用鸡蛋并不会对健康成年人的内皮功能产生不利影响。
他们报告说，食用鸡蛋对内皮功能并没有产生影响……但其实验条件是在与食用香肠和奶酪相比的情况下，以及与食用香肠奶酪早餐三明治相比的情况下所得出的结论。
然而鸡蛋委员会并没有警告人们，吃鸡蛋事实上就像吃麦当劳的香肠麦满分一样，是不利于动脉功能的；相反地，他们却告知人们，食用鸡蛋对血管内皮功能和胆固醇都是无害的。
可为什么额外的胆固醇并没有让人们的身体情况变得更糟呢？
因为平稳期效应的关系，对身体来说，人体在吸收到一定量的胆固醇之后，吃再多的胆固醇也只是像往火堆里再扔一根火柴而已，火势不会因此再变大了。如果你已经每天食用美国标准膳食所含的平均400毫克的胆固醇的话，那么即使在饮食中再加上两个巨型鸡蛋，都不会有什么更坏的事情发生了。
但是对于那些试图吃得健康点的人来说，这两个鸡蛋可能使他们的胆固醇值升高20个点。 这就恰好证明了无脂、无胆固醇的鸡蛋替代品对人体是有益的。因此，不吃鸡蛋其实是能够降低胆固醇值的。
不吃鸡蛋可以改善内皮功能，而这正是这些吃鸡蛋的人所需要的。 他们的动脉已经有损伤了，他们需要用一些东西来扑灭大火，而不是向大火中掷入更多的火柴。
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