eggs

[overhead]

There are not too many times when I do not have some chicken or lean beef already cooked sitting in my fridge. If we followed govt allowances for cholesterol, my arteries should be blocked solid . I have found that on a low carb diet, even though I am eating a ton more fatty foods, my blood lipid levels have improved, but that could just be me.

 

[audiophyle]

i thought dietary cholestoral had no impact on blood cholestoral...?

 

[Zander1983]

Do a search on the Diet board for a thread I started about cholestrol. Its helpful

I'll try and find it later, once I've read through the only board that's really worth visiting

 

[Zander1983]

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=238257

"Dietary cholesterol has no significant effect on blood cholesterol.

It is the quality of the dietary fats you ingest, that dictates whether you have a good/bad ratio of HDL/LDL in your blood. (simple sugars, trans-fatty acids, saturated fats etc. raise you LDL)
Other factors come into play also, such as fibre intake, cardiovascular exercise etc.

People who should avoid dietary cholesterol are the ones who have genetically high cholesterol; they cannot process it efficiently - that's why it stays high and why they should avoid dietary chol."

 

[IronLion]

i eat eggs and cheese and milk and potatoes as my late night snack almost every night......tonight I had a salad bowl full of raisin bran and a new york strip

 

[FatRat]

what about when i have nothing else low carb in my house????

Just don’t eat the yolks! I might have half a dozen eggs, but only eat one or two of the yolks. Unfortunately, once you remove it, there isn’t actually much of the egg left...

 

[Nzou]

Oh man....I'm very much a newbie here, and I'm eating 5 to 7 whole eggs every day! Plus 2,5 liters full cream milk. And I still take weeks to put on one kilogram of bodyweight. Talk about a slow gainer....

 

[spatts]

First of all, this should be in the diet forum.

Second of all, dietary cholesterol and the kind you make are different. Notice all the people on low fat diets that still have a problem with cholesterol?

Third, most of the cholesterol is in the yolk. So if you're that concerned about it, eat whites. I never have more tha 2 yolks a day, but I may eat up to 24 whites. Yes, breakfast, lunch, dinner, postworkout, before bed...ANYTIME. If you need more substance, add wome water to your eggs after you beat them to add fluff.

There is some indication that cholesterol may be an important nutrient immediately after high intensity resistance exercise. Total cholesterol has been shown to be significantly lowered for at least 90 hours following a single bout of resistance exercise (Smith 1994).

If you are eating eggs for the fat, you should know that half the EFAs are destroyed in preparation.

WRT to dietary cholesterol intake, there is usually no problem as long as your blood cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides levels are OK.