1 egg yolk packs more cholesterol than a double down [General]
2010 Nov 3
At least the Gazette article mentions the other data about the Double-Down, such as its ridiculous amount of sodium. The Globe and Fail article ("Eggs versus the Double Down: Guess who wins?") includes no such information and very few details about the actual study.
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2010 Nov 4
The Sun's article is equally terrible.
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I would love to see it come out that this study has been commissioned by some company that has corporate ties to KFC -- or something like that.
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I would love to see it come out that this study has been commissioned by some company that has corporate ties to KFC -- or something like that.
2010 Nov 4
Buried in the article is the information that in most cases, dietary cholesterol is not directly related to blood cholesterol, with the exception of post heart-attack diabetics. ( i.e. when you eat cholesterol, your blood cholesterol does not rise accordingly ). Very murky conclusions, and poor reporting.
2010 Nov 7
Actually I downloaded the full pdf of the scientific paper. Here a link to the complete article in the Journal of Canadian Cardilogy:
tinyurl.com/29ukmb7
It's based on numerous independent sources of evidence.
In the paper it's clear that it is not true that cholesterol is only bad for diabetics, but that for healthy people there was not enough statistical power in the studies (you have to follow a lot of people for a long time to have enough heart attacks to have statistically significant results) to show the harm. For diabetics, who have more heart attacks, there was enough statistical power to show a doubling of heart attack risk from cholesterol.
It's like the nutritional information at Tim Horton's (on the web site). It shows a small amount of trans fat in doughnuts but none in timbits. Everyone knows where timbits come from - the hole in the doughnut. It's simply because the trans fat is shown to two decimal places and the timbit, being about 20% of the size of the doughnut, has proportionally smaller amounts of trans fat, so it drops into the third decimal place and the chart shows 0.00. Same with the cholesterol study.
My philosophy is, food is good, but life itself is better.
tinyurl.com/29ukmb7
It's based on numerous independent sources of evidence.
In the paper it's clear that it is not true that cholesterol is only bad for diabetics, but that for healthy people there was not enough statistical power in the studies (you have to follow a lot of people for a long time to have enough heart attacks to have statistically significant results) to show the harm. For diabetics, who have more heart attacks, there was enough statistical power to show a doubling of heart attack risk from cholesterol.
It's like the nutritional information at Tim Horton's (on the web site). It shows a small amount of trans fat in doughnuts but none in timbits. Everyone knows where timbits come from - the hole in the doughnut. It's simply because the trans fat is shown to two decimal places and the timbit, being about 20% of the size of the doughnut, has proportionally smaller amounts of trans fat, so it drops into the third decimal place and the chart shows 0.00. Same with the cholesterol study.
My philosophy is, food is good, but life itself is better.
Francis