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“You can eat any cholesterol-containing food you wish as long as you are among that big majority of Americans with the genetic ability to handle cholesterol,” a University of Missouri-Columbia nutritionist said.
Addressing scientists attending the national meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, Margaret Flynn, professor of family and community medicine, said more that 86 percent of the U.S. population has the genes to control cholesterol levels in their blood.
Flynn has conducted several studies during the past 15 years on the effects of cholesterol-containing foods— like eggs and beef—on cholesterol levels in the Mood.
“In none of the studies did we find any indication that these increased serum cholesterol on those who have the ability to handle cholesterol,” she said.
In Flynn’s 24-week study, 26 male medical students ate two eggs daily for twelve weeks while maintaining a controlled diet. Then for six weeks, the students were on an uncontrolled diet, eating whatever they wished but maintaining their entry weight. For the remaining 12 weeks, the students abstained from eating eggs. “These studies used all male subjects because men are more likely to get heart disease,” Flynn said. The research also showed that emotional stress has virtually no effect on blood cholesterol.
In previous studies Flynn’s subjects added one egg a day to their diets, and then a later study was made adding two eggs a day to the diet. In both studies weight was maintained to within two pounds of the entry weight. All subjects in these studies had a history of normal serum cholesterol levels (about 226 mg.). Results: whether they ate eggs or did not eat eggs, there was little change in serum cholesterol.
In another study, Flynn studied the effect of beef consumption on cholesterol. “For three months the only meat the subjects could eat was the fish or chicken that we gave them. Then for the next three months, the only meat they ate was the 5 ounces of beef a day they were given. The results of this study also showed no significant increases in blood cholesterol. “It does not appear that what you eat, as far as dietary saturated fat and cholesterol is concerned, turns Into the other kind,
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