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Southwestern Minnesota | The "eggs are bad for you" situation started in 1968 when the AHA announced that a person should not eat more than 300 mg of cholesterol per day. Eggs, being a rich source of cholesterol, as well as a host of other nutrients were shunned. It took a lot of research and time (a lot of it funded by the egg industry) to get that corrected. In 2015, dietary cholesterol and egg restrictions were dropped by most health promotion agencies worldwide and recommended to be dropped from the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. That did take a long time, but that is rather "old news" now since it has been nine years since that was the recommendation.
Here's the link about the history of that for anyone interested:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632449/
I can't think that eating 720 eggs in one month would be a particularly healthy thing to do, but if he wants to do that in the name of science then he should go for it. I wouldn't try to eat 720 apples in one month or likely not 720 of anything in one month.
I've read several books on medieval nutrition and medicine. It is interesting to see how far we've come. The Greeks and Romans had some very interesting ideas about how to treat various maladies. As medicine and health advanced and more was learned about how the body operated and what various plants and treatments could do, more was learned. Past discoveries and information fuel further discoveries. We certainly do not know everything there is to know. And, yes, some of the things we thought were right, ended up not being so. There are plenty of new things to learn and unlearn. | |
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Eggs and cholesterol
