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DIARY: February 20, 2016 12:18 PM Saturday; Rod Welch

Health article reports study found cholesterol rich food does risk heart disease.

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........No link found between high cholesterol foods and heart disease
........risk: Research


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190908 -        No link found between high cholesterol foods and heart disease                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
190909 -        risk: Research                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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190911 -        Written by Emma Tiller on 20 Feb 2016                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
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190913 -        American Journal of Clinical Nutrition-published study                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
190914 -        findings are contrary to widely believed thoughts that high                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
190915 -        cholesterol foods are harmful for health. The Finnish study                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
190916 -        has found that high cholesterol foods like eggs do not                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
190917 -        increase the risk of heart disease. The long term study                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
190918 -        involved adult men in age group 42-60 and they were tracked                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
190919 -        for many years.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
190921 -         ..
190922 -        The study is the latest one that shows that focusing on a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190923 -        particular aspect of food, like cholesterol in eggs is not the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190924 -        best way to find out the health impact of that food item.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190925 -        Study's lead researcher Luc Djoussé from Harvard Medical                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
190926 -        School and Brigham and Women's Hospital said that dietary                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190927 -        cholesterol does not unveil about high levels of blood                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
190928 -        cholesterol.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190930 -         ..
190931 -        In the study, the researchers have studied more than 1,000                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190932 -        healthy men aged between 42 and 60. The researchers have                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
190933 -        included factors like age, education, body mass index (BMI),                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190934 -        diabetes, hypertension and other characteristics. Around                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
190935 -        one-third of the participants were having ApoE4-a gene                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
190936 -        variant, which may increase the risk of heart disease and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190937 -        Alzheimer?s disease.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
190939 -         ..
190940 -        The participants in the study have consumed around 2,800                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
190941 -        milligrams of cholesterol every week on an average. A quarter                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
190942 -        of cholesterol that participants had come from eggs consumed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190943 -        on weekly basis.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
190945 -         ..
190946 -        Prof. Jyrki Viranen from the University of Eastern Finland                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190947 -        said, ?Moderate intake of cholesterol doesn't seem to increase                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190948 -        the risk of heart disease, even among those people at higher                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190949 -        risk?.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
190951 -         ..
190952 -        From the study findings, the research team has been concluded                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
190953 -        that there was no link between cardiovascular disease and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190954 -        total cholesterol or egg consumption among people irrespective                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190955 -        of the fact that they were the carriers of APoE4 or not.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
190957 -         ..
190958 -        The DigitalJournal notes that, The study followed the dietary                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
190959 -        habits among 1,000 middle-aged Finnish men for 20 years; the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190960 -        subjects had healthy hearts at the outset of the study and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190961 -        approximately 1/3 of them carried the APOE4 gene.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
190963 -         ..
190964 -        "It is quite well known that dietary cholesterol intake has                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
190965 -        quite a modest impact on blood cholesterol levels, and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
190966 -        cholesterol or egg intakes have not been associated with a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190967 -        higher risk of heart disease in most studies," said study                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190968 -        author Jyrki Virtanen. He is an adjunct professor in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
190969 -        nutritional epidemiology with the University of Eastern Finland                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
190970 -        Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition in Kuopio,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190971 -        Finland.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
190973 -         ..
190974 -        In other news MedicalDaily reported, the link between high                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190975 -        cholesterol and heart disease has long been embedded in our                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
190976 -        minds, reinforced by warnings that big, greasy burgers and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190977 -        other fast food items are ?heart attacks on a plate.?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
190979 -         ..
190980 -        "Moderate intake of cholesterol doesn't seem to increase the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
190981 -        risk of heart disease, even among those people at higher risk,"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
190982 -        Jyrki Viranen, an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190983 -        University of Eastern Finland,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190985 -         ..
190986 -        In a statement provided to TheDailyMeal News, in the past,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
190987 -        doctors have steered patients away from eggs, but new research                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190988 -        suggests you can eat at least an egg a day without increasing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
190989 -        your cardiovascular risk.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
190991 -         ..
190992 -        A new report on the coronary effects of high-cholesterol diets                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190993 -        and regular consumption of eggs - which are high in cholesterol                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
190994 -        compared to other foods - challenges a widely held belief that                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
190995 -        too many eggs per week can increase one's risk of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
190996 -        cardiovascular disease.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
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