KTK-Nutrition

Eggs have gotten a bad rap over the years.   Almost everyone knows eggs have cholesterol and for years health professionals have given warnings that eating eggs are bad for your heart.   Is this true?   Does eating eggs raise your cholesterol and raise your risk of heart disease?   For those of us who love eggs, it was hard to limit our egg consumption.   What are the facts? Does eating eggs raise my risk of heart disease?          For most people, eggs are not the culprit they used to be.    Most of us can enjoy up to 6 eggs a week or 2 eggs every other day and not raise our risk of heart disease.   However, some people have a sensitivity to dietary cholesterol and they should heed the recommendations of their health professional.         The latest Dietary Guidelines note that dietary cholesterol such as the cholesterol in eggs are not the primary drivers of blood cholesterol.   ...

Well the World Health Organization (WHO) has once again taken the joy out of the American diet.   They made headlines recently for their proclamation about the health risks of eating meat.   The Time headline is, The War on Delicious which is very appropriate when an organization wages war on the foods so many Americans eat.   So what are the health risks with red meat, processed meats and what meats are they talking about?   How much can you eat before you are at risk?   As a person who enjoys a bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin with Canadian bacon, I did not take the news lightly that processed meats are bad for one’s health. Health Risks and Processed Meat WHO attributes about 34,000 cancer deaths each year to diets high in eating processed meats.   For red meat, they attribute 50,000 deaths a year.   But as Time points out, tobacco-related cancer is linked to 1 million deaths a year.   How much raises your risk, ...