蛋呀~ 你終於清白喇!

恐龍媽好鍾意食炒蛋!

到大肚, 簡直放監一樣! 仲成日叫d大肚媽媽放心食, 因為用得去!

到最近~ 睇d營養書先知佢係無罪架! 所以, 近月又開始食蛋!

見到呢單新聞, 真係好開心! 平反喇! 最緊要係連d 國際standard都跟住改嘛!

可喜可賀!

 

【明報專訊】英國一項研究發現，雞蛋並不是人體血液內膽固醇的主要來源，因此多國政府提出每周最多吃3隻蛋的指引並不合時宜。英國心臟基金會最近亦已收回吃蛋限制建議。

薩利大學的研究在英國營養學基金會的營養學公報中發表。研究指出，雞蛋中的膽固醇對血液內的膽固醇只有極輕微影響，雖然高膽固醇人士患心臟病風險較高，但他們體內的膽固醇只有三分一是來自飲食。相反，食物中的飽和脂肪、吸煙、癡肥和缺乏運動，才是導致體內膽固醇含量增加的主因。

英組織收回吃蛋建議
英國心臟基金會兩年前提出，每周最多吃2至4隻雞蛋，但英國傳媒報道，基金會最近已收回有關建議。基金會承認，雞蛋對人體膽固醇的影響不大，反而脂肪含量多的肉類、全脂奶製品、蛋糕和餅乾等的飽和脂肪才應避免。
泰晤士報/每日電訊報

 

An egg a day is good for you, says British Nutrition Foundation

From The Times

February 11, 2009

An egg a day is good for you, says British Nutrition Foundation

Cholesterol in eggs has only a small, clinically insignificant effect on blood cholesterol, say researchers

Valerie Elliott, Consumer Editor

Going to work on an egg may be good for you after all.

Fears that eating one egg a day will lead to high cholesterol and heart disease were challenged yesterday by scientific research.

It seems that there is no reason after all for healthy people to limit egg consumption to three a week — even though nearly half of British people believe that this is the maximum recommended number.

A paper to be published soon in the British Nutrition Foundation's Nutrition Bulletin has found that cholesterol in eggs has only a small and clinically insignificant effect on blood cholesterol. While people with high blood cholesterol are at increased risk of heart disease, only a third of the cholesterol in the body is attributed to diet.

 

Other factors linked to high cholesterol levels are smoking, being overweight and lack of exercise, and the main culprit from food is saturated fat, not cholesterol found in eggs.

There was some scepticism about the findings when it was confirmed that Juliet Gray, a public health nutritionist, was funded by the egg industry for her research time. The co-author Bruce Griffin, a professor of nutritional metabolism at the University of Surrey, did not receive payment, though in the past he has advised the British Egg Industry Council on scientific issues.

However, it also emerged yesterday that the British Heart Foundation (BHF) revised its advice on egg consumption two years ago and no longer suggests a maximum of three eggs a week.

This advice is in line with guidance from the Food Standards Agency, which also says that most people have no reason to worry about the number of eggs they eat a week — though anyone who has inherited a genetic susceptibility to high blood cholesterol linked to increased risk of coronary heart disease, about one in 500 people in Britain, is still advised to stick to two or at most three eggs a week.

The study concludes that health chiefs and GPs should demolish the myths about eggs and heart disease and communicate a message that there is no need to limit the number eaten as long as they are part of a healthy low saturated fat diet.

Professor Griffin said: “The ingrained misconception linking egg consumption to high blood cholesterol and heart disease must be corrected.

“The amount of saturated fat in our diet exerts an effect on blood cholesterol that is several times greater than the relatively small amounts of dietary cholesterol.

“The UK public does not need to be limiting the number of eggs they eat.”

Victoria Taylor, senior dietician at the BHF, confirmed that it no longer recommends a maximum consumption of two, three or four eggs a week.

She said: “We recommend that eggs can be eaten as part of a balanced diet. There is cholesterol present in eggs but this does not usually make a great contribution to your level of blood cholesterol.

“If you need to reduce your blood cholesterol level it is more important that you cut down on the amount of saturated fat in your diet from foods like fatty meat, full fat dairy products, cakes, biscuits and pastries.”