Eggs Exposed: Serious Health Concerns Ignored | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Are eggs healthy? Do they raise cholesterol?
The truth about one of the most popular foods in the world is coming to light and will put an end to one of the great nutrition debates of recent memory. The answers are more important than ever as the average American eats nearly 300 eggs every year.
Find out what eggs mean for your cholesterol, your heart, and your health as Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
Topics Discussed
- Is the cholesterol in eggs dangerous?
- Is there more cholesterol in eggs than meat?
- Are egg whites healthy?
- Can eggs used in baking still raise cholesterol?
- Is saturated fat or cholesterol a bigger health concern?
- How much influence do egg producers have on research?
- Can just a few eggs a week still be unhealthy?
- And more!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | How does the cholesterol in an egg compare to say a slab of steak or a big |
| 0:09.4 | Mac that you might get from McDonald's? Well the cholesterol itself is the same |
| 0:13.5 | molecule. What's different about an egg is there is so much more of it. You'd have |
| 0:18.0 | to eat a heck of a lot of meat to get the amount of cholesterol that you get from |
| 0:21.2 | an egg. There is more cholesterol in an egg than just about any other food. It's |
| 0:26.6 | highly highly concentrated and we actually met with the decision makers at the |
| 0:32.0 | Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA and had to talk with them |
| 0:36.8 | we went through the evidence and they changed their care. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I am the |
| 0:52.7 | Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health |
| 0:56.5 | IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. Hi to |
| 1:01.8 | everyone listening in Anaheim, California, Patterson, New Jersey and San Juan, |
| 1:07.2 | Puerto Rico. Wherever you are we appreciate you helping to make the world a |
| 1:11.8 | healthier place. This is episode 18 of season 6 number 414 overall. Eggs! Are |
| 1:22.3 | they a superfood or are they a health hazard that's just waiting to bring you |
| 1:28.2 | down? The truth is we are in the middle of an egg war my friend and some people |
| 1:34.8 | say the high levels of cholesterol they have they will stop your heart but |
| 1:39.7 | others say that the cholesterol in eggs won't raise the cholesterol in your |
| 1:43.2 | blood not one little bit. Some say the protein from eggs is second to none |
| 1:49.3 | others say getting that protein from somewhere else might just save your life |
| 1:53.7 | and now the FDA is weighing whether to officially label eggs as a health |
| 1:59.9 | food. So what in the world are we to believe? Well we are going to crack open the |
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