KTK-Nutrition

Who doesn’t love eggs?    In an omelet or scrambled for breakfast or egg salad sandwiches for lunch or hard-boiled eggs for a snack.    For many years eggs were given a bad rap because of cholesterol.    At one time even the American Heart Association recommended limiting egg consumption.    With newer research we can enjoy eggs once again.   🥚  What about eggs and cholesterol?  New  research  has not found a link between egg consumption and heart disease, even among men at genetic risk for heart disease.  It seems high blood cholesterol levels are more linked to the saturated fat in meat and trans fats rather than the cholesterol in eggs.  In one Finnish  study , over 1,000 men were followed for 21 years.  They found egg consumption and dietary cholesterol did not significantly increase risk of heart disease.  Harvard  notes , “For most people, an egg a day does not incre...

What if you and your family decided to forgo ultra-processed foods for a period of time?    Would you notice any changes?    The Wall Street Journal has an article about a  family  that did give up ultra-processed foods for a month and wrote about their experience.   What ultra-processed foods did the  family  give up? There are many definitions of ultra-processed foods, but this family decided to keep it simple.  They decided to exclude foods that contained ingredients like preservatives and emulsifiers that one wouldn’t find in their home kitchen.  “We decided that if a food had an ingredient that we don’t use or could barely pronounce (e.g., maltodextrin, soy lecithin, guar gum), then we wouldn’t buy it.”  🌟  What Happens When You Give Up Ultra-Processed Foods? One Family Tried It for a Month — Here’s What Changed 🧠   Better Mental Health Less anxiety, fewer mood swings, more energy . An  NIH study...