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Talk:Dietary cholesterol

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Eggs raise serum cholesterol[edit]

The reason there is so much confusion here is the relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol isn’t linear, it’s log linear. At low levels of intake there are large increases but you get diminishing harm and hit a ceiling fairly early. Going from 0 eggs to 1 egg has a much larger effect than going from 5 to 6 eggs. The egg industry, intentionally or not, took advantage of this in the many studies they funded. They used subjects that already had high dietary cholesterol intake and showed adding additional eggs made little difference.

We have hundreds of metabolic ward studies proving conclusively that dietary cholesterol effects serum cholesterol levels

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9006469/

Non linear relationship discussed here

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522030866

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1534437/

And cross sectional analyses lack statistical power due to the size of genetic variations in cholesterol

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/313701/

None of the papers on the article address these limitations, cites cross sectional analyses but not a meta analysis of 400 metabolic ward studies. Only8livesleft (talk) 22:36, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

You are quoting research from the 1990s that has since been corrected. That is discussed here https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19751443/ "It is now acknowledged that the original studies purporting to show a linear relation between cholesterol intake and coronary heart disease (CHD) may have contained fundamental study design flaws, including conflated cholesterol and saturated fat consumption rates and inaccurately assessed actual dietary intake of fats by study subjects. Newer and more accurate trials, such as that conducted by Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health, have shown that consumption of up to seven eggs per week is harmonious with a healthful diet, except in male patients with diabetes for whom an association in higher egg intake and CHD was shown."
Dietary cholesterol is a risk factor for diabetics and those with pre-existing CHD, it would also be a risk for carnivore diet clowns who eat 20 eggs a day, it is not a risk for healthy individuals in the general population. Eating 1 egg a day does not increase serum cholesterol. Saturated fat is the risk factor to worry about, not dietary cholesterol. 209.38.167.90 (talk) 23:06, 4 November 2024 (UTC)