Since eggs have been vindicated by not just one but a succession of recent lab studies… Science has needed another Breakfast Health Risk candidate to ‘take the fall’. And it appears Bacon has been just waiting to step into that role…
It’s not the egg that makes this traditional English ‘Fry-Up’
Breakfast so classically unhealthy: It’s the two
types of sausage and the bacon…
Eggs were, until recently, vilified as THE excess-fatty breakfast food to avoid, to sidestep increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It’s interesting to see how quickly science has switched its focus to bacon as your day-starting ‘must-to-avoid’.
Same issue(s)…
The issue(s) are the same. Only the details have changed.
CVD is the leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for nearly 18 million deaths each year. In Australia, one person dies from CVD every 12 minutes, accounting for one in four of deaths nation-wide [in Australia]. The picture is pretty much the same across the ‘Western’ World.
As the latest specific study conclusively shows, it’s not the kind of fat in Eggs – nor is it their dietary cholesterol – that make the classic ‘fatty’ Western breakfast dangerous from a nutritional perspec-tive. It’s bad (saturated) fats such as the those that make up the majority of the fat in foods such as bacon and sausage…
What they did
In this study, researchers separated the effects of choles-terol and saturated fat. That’s a first-ever – in spite if all the research that’s previously been done on eggs. And it conclusively answers the critical question that researchers have tippy-toed around for the past 2-3 years…
What they found…
It’s saturated fats found in foods like bacon and sausage that actually elevate harmful LDL choles-terol levels.
In a world’s-first study, researchers showed that eating two eggs a day, as part of a low saturated fat diet, can even help reduce LDL cholesterol, challenging outdated guidelines and offering heart-healthy news for breakfast lovers everywhere.
The takeaway
“You could say we’ve delivered hard-boiled evidence in defense of the humble egg,” you can almost hear Buckley chuckle, tongue-in-cheek.
And a little bacon [emphasis mine – M.J.] may not be as big a dietary sin as was formerly thought, either.
“So, when it comes to a cooked breakfast, it’s not the eggs you need to worry about,” Buckley sug-gests. “It’s the extra serve of bacon or the side of sausage that’s more likely to impact your heart health.”
My take
I’ve been following a succession of lab studies over the past 24 months or so, results of which have ‘suggested’ the same findings for which Buckley’s team has now provided solid confirmation.
One thing is for sure… This guy, Buckley, has a sense of humour I can relate to.
You might say – he cracks me up!
~ Maggie J.