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Egg yolks almost as bad for your heart as smoking cigarettes, says study


Like Hollandaise sauce? Too bad — for your heart and blood vessels. Yolks are packed with cholesterol, causing blood-vessel-clogging plaque buildup, just like smoking does.





Think twice before you bite into a hearty breakfast of eggs benedict slathered in hollandaise sauce — you may as well be lighting up, according to a new study.

In terms of cardiovascular risks, the yolk-based sauce that makes the dish so good is almost as bad for you as smoking cigarettes, researchers in Canada found.

“One jumbo chicken egg yolk has about 237 milligrams of cholesterol,” study author Dr. David Spence told CNN.

Spence explains that eating large amounts of cholesterol causes plaque buildup in the blood vessels, the same way smoking does.

When plaque builds up, the artery walls become thicker, limiting the amount of blood that can get through the vessels to the heart and upping risk for heart disease.

His research, published online in the journal Atherosclerosis, found that people who eat egg yolks regularly have about 2/3 as much plaque buildup as smokers.

Yolk-lovers’ buildup “follows a similar pattern to that of cigarette smoking,” researchers wrote.

People who ate three or more yolks per week had significantly more buildup than those who ate two or less yolks per week.

Spence, a neurology professor at the University of Western Ontario’s medical school, and two colleagues looked at more than 1,200 patients for the research.

All already had carotid plaque issues or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Their average age was about 60 years old, but Spence stresses that cardiovascular health is important at all ages.

“Just because you are 20 doesn’t mean egg yolks aren’t going to cause any trouble down the line,” he told CNN.

Spence says researchers chose to compare the effects of eating egg yolks with the effects of smoking to provide people with perspective, as eating yolks is typically considered “insignificant” compared to smoking.

But some health experts say it isn’t a fair comparison.

Dr. David Frid, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, says the way cigarettes and eggs harm the heart is completely different.

Eating egg yolks increases cholesterol, which causes plaque to build up, so the effect is indirect. Smoking is directly harmful because it inflames the arteries, causing plaque, he explained to ABC News.

Frid adds that there are external factors, which Spence and researchers recognized, that could influence cholesterol levels.

“It may be that people who consume a lot of eggs also consume a lot of other fatty foods,” he said.

rmurray@nydailynews.com

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Every five years eggs are good.

Every other five years eggs are bad.



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Originally Posted by pogobor99

Every five years eggs are good.

Every other five years eggs are bad.



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Exactly. Fearmongering garbage.