Nutritionist Challenges The Latest Study Vilifying Egg Yolks

[Aaltrude]

MARCO TORRES
Aug 17, 2012

Scientists recently stated that eating the yolk of an egg is almost as bad as smoking for people at risk of heart disease. Nutritionist Dr Carrie Ruxton has challenged the latest study vilifying egg yolk as a contributor to coronary artery. disease.
The problem according to scientists is an increased risk of the hardening of the arteries, known as atherosclerosis. They revealed that eating the yolk of an egg is about two-thirds as bad as smoking when it comes to the build up of plaques.

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[Islander]

RThat's patently absurd. How does this nonsense make it into print? Everyone knows an egg is the perfect protein — a boneless chicken!

[highlander]

RThat's patently absurd. How does this nonsense make it into print? Everyone knows an egg is the perfect protein — a boneless chicken!

And you don't have to kill it -- a comforting thought.

And now we'll start to hear people quote this demonizing of the egg yolk as though it's solid fact.

[Maurya]

"I saw it on TV; it must be true!"

[Pattypans]

I don't buy it either, but maybe that's because I eat 4 raw organic eggs almost every day, and feel really good when I do. My chiro suggested it (I'd been eating one raw a day) b/c he said I needed more animal protein to improve the muscle tone in my legs. Sometimes I'll eat one or two cooked eggs two, but less often.

[Aaltrude]

I have two organic eggs each day. They are a super food - after all they do contain all the ingredients to form a young chicken.