eggs and cholesterol


When eating fat, most people still have a guilty conscience concerning them (healthy) cholesterol. Eating (a lot of) fat raises your cholesterol, and that is bad, so fatty foods should be avoided. But is that so? Cholesterol is it so bad? And your cholesterol is higher by eating fat? As with so many things it is much more subtle in this case.Healthy fats (made up of the proper ratio of both the monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, as well as the saturated fatty acids which can be found in butter, for example), we need! As a building material for all kinds of cell walls and hormones to absorb fat-soluble vitamins and as an energy supplier. More fat food does not automatically lead to higher cholesterol levels.Neither eating eggs. Although eggs contain cholesterol, there are now reliable studies showing that even eating daily to seven eggs (!) Does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Obviously, this is not a recommendation to 7 eggs to eat every day, but 4 to 6 eggs a week is not a problem. Cholesterol is produced in all cells of the body, is a part of the cell walls and is a molecule of which hormones are made. Without cholesterol, is not a human life as possible. Only a small part of the cholesterol, we get in through the diet. High cholesterol is usually the result of inflammation or fever in an infection, but not the cause (hereditary high cholesterol is the exception).Does it not matter what I eat? Yes. It does. By wrong food (and I mean not directly too much fat, but too much of the wrong types of fat, especially too much linoleic acid (omega 6). and too many refined carbohydrates (sugars), but also by too little exercise and too much stress we get in our body inflammation (including cardiovascular diseases arise from inflammation!). in response to these inflammatory responses, the body produce more cholesterol to repair the ignition damage. So it is more meaningful to reduce the inflammation then indiscriminately less fat or eggs to eat to lower our cholesterol.You can address this on several fronts: vital nutrition, exercise, stress reduction and relaxation, adequate sleep. An individual approach is necessary here and the personal food plan of Metabolic Balance ® I can help improve your cholesterol levels.

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