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“Debunking Egg Industry Myths”
In my video, “Eggs vs. Cigarrettes in Atherosclerosis”, I profiled a study showing that, smoking more than a pack a day for ten years was bad for your arteries, and combining egg eating and smoking was even worse, thus the effect of eggs and smoking appears to be additive.
But egg yolks alone in non-smokers was associated with artery-clogging plaque buildup, nearly two thirds as bad as smoking. This certainly ruffled some feathers.
Here’s an extreme example just to illustrate: a year in the life of a study subject on and off eggs.
First, they take him off eggs, putting him on a cholesterol free diet, and his cholesterol plummets within just three weeks. Then they give him lots of eggs and he’s back in trouble, and stays there until they take the eggs away and put him back on the cholesterol free diet and so on and so forth, on and off, turning his high blood cholesterol on and off ,like a light switch made out of eggs.
Here’s the latest meta-analysis, the latest compilation of all the best studies on egg consumption and risk of heart disease going back to 1930.
Overall, those that ate the most eggs had a 19% increased risk of cardiovascular disease, a 68% increased risk of diabetes, and then once you get diabetes, an 85% increased risk of heart disease.
And it didn’t take much. Less than a single egg a day was associated with a significantly increased risk of heart disease. Just over a half an egg a day may increase heart disease risk between 6 and 40%, and the risk of diabetes 29%.
They conclude that their findings support the American Heart Association dietary guidelines, which advise restricted egg consumption in adults for preventing cardio metabolic diseases like diabetes, our seventh leading cause of death, and heart disease, killer number one.
“揭穿鸡蛋行业的神话”
在“鸡蛋与香烟对动脉粥样硬化的影响”的视频中，我向大家展示了这么一项研究，研究表明，坚持十年每天吸超过一包烟的话，对动脉会产生有害的影响。如果这个吸烟的人的膳食也包括鸡蛋的话，那情况就更糟了，因此鸡蛋和吸烟的影响似乎是会相互叠加的。
但对于不吸烟的人来说，仅仅食用蛋黄就和动脉血栓的形成有关，这已经很接近吸烟对人体所造成危害的60%多了。这一残酷的事实引起了人们的不满。
给大家看一个极端的例子来说明一下这个问题：我们想看一看，让一个研究对象在一年内断断续续吃鸡蛋的话会怎么样。
首先，研究人员让测试者不要吃鸡蛋，并且他的膳食中都不能包含胆固醇，这使得他的胆固醇值在短短三周内暴跌。然后研究人员让他吃很多鸡蛋，这一举动使他血液里的胆固醇爆增后居高不下，直到研究人员让测试者再次停止摄入鸡蛋和其他胆固醇的时候，测试者血液里的胆固醇值才开始下跌。研究人员就这么反反复复地把测试者的胆固醇值调高调低，这一动作就好像在操控着一个用鸡蛋做的电灯开关那样。
我们来看一下最新的荟萃分析怎么说，这是1930年以来，所有关于鸡蛋消费和心脏病风险的顶级研究的最新汇编。
总的来说，那些吃鸡蛋最多的人患心血管疾病的风险增加了19%，患糖尿病的风险增加了68%，并且一旦你患上糖尿病的话，也就意味着你患心脏病的风险同时增加了85%。
而要增加人们的患病几率真的是太容易了，因为每天吃少少鸡蛋就能显著增加人们患心脏病的风险了。如果每天吃超过半个鸡蛋的话，患心脏病的风险可能会增加6%－40%，同时患糖尿病的风险增加29%。
研究人员总结说到，他们对于“鸡蛋与疾病”的研究发现与美国心脏协会给大众的膳食建议是相一致的，美国心脏协会建议成年人通过限制鸡蛋的摄入，来预防如（人类健康的第七大杀手）糖尿病，以及（头号杀手）心脏病之类的代谢性疾病。