This just in: eating eggs causes heart disease!

[Pointedstick]

So says some study: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/1 ... ?hpt=hp_c2

In the study, researchers looked at 1,231 patients of the vascular prevention clinics at London Health Sciences Centre's University Hospital, with a mean age of 61.5. Each patient had already experienced a small stroke or  had high blood pressure, hypertension or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Spence says researchers chose to use patients with a higher likelihood of cardiovascular issues because it would have been harder to get visible results using the general population with a lower risk.

Patients were asked to fill out questionnaires about their diet, lifestyle and medications, including how much they smoked and the number of egg yolks they ate.  An ultrasound was performed to examine their plaque buildup. Researchers took into account sex, cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, body mass index and diabetes.

In addition to relying completely on the recollection of patients as to what they ate, the study did not account for waist circumference and it did not account for a patient's exercise program.  And perhaps most notably, it only looked at patients with existing cardiovascular issues.

(my emphasis)

It's amazing that such a clearly flawed study is even being reported on.

[Reub]

I wouldn't be surprised if this study was sponsored by the manufacturers of Eggbeaters and Lipitor.

[notsheigetz]

My Dad would get a kick out of this. He probably feasted on bacon and eggs at least once a day for most of his life. He's now 93.

[Gumby]

Nevermind that most of the people in the study were probably cooking their eggs in canola oil or some kind of trans fat.

[Gosso]

I'm going to stop eating eggs until science tells me it's okay.  It seems the only food remaining that I can shove into my pie-hole is ground pepper.

Apparently these researchers are funded by Pfizer.  I'm not saying they purposely skewed the results, but they may have had the conclusion in mind before they set out to complete the study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... 35150title

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: None of the authors receives funding from purveyors of margarine or eggs. Dr Spence and Dr Davignon have received honoraria and speaker’s fees from several pharmaceutical companies manufacturing lipid-lowering drugs, and Dr Davignon has received support from Pfizer Canada for an annual atherosclerosis symposium; his research has been funded in part by Pfizer Canada, AstraZeneca Canada Inc and Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.

Hmmm, so maybe every carton of eggs should contain bottle of Lipitor.  The consumer stays healthy and the stockholders make lots of money...Win-Win. 

[Gumby]

This evening I had two high fat hamburgers sourced from grass-fed beef and pastured bacon, topped with farmer's market red leaf lettuce and heirloom tomatoes. On the side I ate fresh hand-cut yukon gold potatoes fried in grass-fed beef tallow.

Yesterday I ate seared fish steaks over sautéed vegetables with a side of a half-dozen freshly shucked oysters that were topped with farm fresh pastured cream, pastured melted butter and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese — broiled until lightly browned and topped with a pinch of sea salt.

...and I had pastured bacon and pastured eggs for breakfast. If this food kills me, I'll die a very happy man.

These high cholesterol, high fat dishes tasted great and my entire body and digestive system felt amazing afterwards. If I had eaten the same food in an average restaurant, I'd probably be sick to my stomach. Ingredients matter.

[MachineGhost]

This evening I had two high fat hamburgers sourced from grass-fed beef and pastured bacon, topped with farmer's market red leaf lettuce and heirloom tomatoes. On the side I ate fresh hand-cut yukon gold potatoes fried in grass-fed beef tallow.

You must be rich to afford all those luxury items.   Wheres your veggies?

Where the hell did you get beef tallow?  If I could get my hands on that, I'd be frying potatoes all year long.

[Gumby]

This evening I had two high fat hamburgers sourced from grass-fed beef and pastured bacon, topped with farmer's market red leaf lettuce and heirloom tomatoes. On the side I ate fresh hand-cut yukon gold potatoes fried in grass-fed beef tallow.

You must be rich to afford all those luxury items.

Nah.. Everything except the beef tallow was locally sourced (farmers markets, fishmongers, etc), so I didn't have to pay for middlemen or shipping on those items.

Wheres your veggies?

I had those too, but they just weren't as exciting (to me) as the cholesterol-laden foods. Perhaps I need some more cholesterol on my veggies.

Where the hell did you get beef tallow?  If I could get my hands on that, I'd be frying potatoes all year long.

I bought my grass-fed beef tallow from US Wellness Meats:
http://www.grasslandbeef.com/Detail.bok?no=878

I think they make it every few days and sell out pretty often, so keep checking back if they are sold out. It's the only thing I couldn't easily find locally — even though I'm sure I could have special ordered it from a few of the beef farmers at the farmer's market if I had bothered to ask. The fries were incredibly crisp and tasty. Good stuff. If it weren't for the (known carcinogen) Acrylamide formation when heating french fries, I'd eat them every day.