17 comments

  • amanaplanacanal a day ago ago

    Haven't we known for years that dietary cholesterol isn't responsible for blood cholesterol? What is actually new here?

    • steve_adams_86 a day ago ago

      Nothing is new other than some data that can contribute to meta analyses on isolating the effects of saturated fat and dietary cholesterol, from what I can tell. There isn't anything particularly compelling here.

      Eggs have anywhere from 1.25–2g of saturated fat each. The bacon is what, 2.5–4g of saturated fat per slice? I may be slightly off. Regardless, we know saturated fat reduces endogenous cholesterol regulation, and leads to increased blood cholesterol levels. Eggs aren't off the hook because they still contain saturated fat.

      There are also people who are 'hyper-responders' to dietary cholesterol, and their endogenous cholesterol regulation is further reduced by dietary cholesterol. So, these people really do need to be careful when including eggs in their diet. It's not even that small of a cohort of the population, as I recall.

      Caveat: I don't know anything about this stuff

  • Igrom a day ago ago

    We have always been at war with bacon.

  • bamboozled a day ago ago

    In 5 years: “Bacon isn’t the villain it’s made out to be, it’s eggs”

    • m463 a day ago ago

      https://theonion.com/eggs-good-for-you-this-week-1819565159/

      by the way, was told by a doctor the other day "sitting is the new smoking"... (so move around with that standing desk)

      • jerlam a day ago ago

        Article from... 1999!

        So we should have gone through five cycles of blaming and praising eggs by now.

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    • Qem a day ago ago

      Nowadays the villain is milk. Lots of influencers disparaging it. "No animal besides humans drink milk as adults, it must be wrecking your health!" they say. This is dumb. No animals besides humans cook food and chlorinate water. What am I supposed to do? Eat raw eggs and drink contaminated water?

      • zaphirplane a day ago ago

        What’s dumb is taking advice from influencers who are incentivised to generate content and viral type content

      • darth_avocado a day ago ago

        Cholera is completely natural and organic

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  • dlachausse a day ago ago

    I don’t care, there is nothing that will ever get me to give up bacon. I’d rather die an early death.

    • exabrial a day ago ago

      Everything in moderation and you’ll live a long happy life, rather than a miserable life without bacon.

      • createaccount99 12 hours ago ago

        "Moderation" for bacon being zero

        • exabrial 7 hours ago ago

          Literally millions of datapoints proving otherwise, but sure if believing that makes you happy go live life how you wish, nobody is stopping you.