Good Fats : Eggs are Back in Style!

Fats and eggs are back in style.  Researchers now say fats and eggs are not the artery clogging culprits after all. The confusion about fats getting a bad wrap can be traced back to the early 1960's.

The American Heart Association declared that saturated fats from egg yolks, organic butter, coconut oil and other fat food sources, would contribute to excess cholesterol in the blood. The US government took this flawed research and established cholesterol guidelines that would make eating eggs a cholesterol raising nightmare.

40 years later, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is saying that the 300 mg. total cholesterol/day consumption is not accurate and the committee is suggesting that cholesterol is essential to every cell in the body and the rates of heart disease and obesity are increasing because we have been convinced that not eating fat was the way to health.

Let's take another look at the incredible egg.  For example, egg yolks are one of the most nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich and vitamin-laden foods we can buy at the grocery store.  Egg whites are just protein and water and are just along for the ride.

Confused? The fat debate should be put to rest.  The foods to avoid are: sugar and starchy carbohydrates which so many people are now addicted.  If we had all continued eating good fats: nuts, avocados, butter, eggs, etc., there would not be the Diabesity Epidemic in the United States.