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Re: URGENT: Don't Eat Eggs [rec.food.veg #59995]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (klc@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 20 13:20:09 1995
From: klc@MIT.EDU
To: Ed Piekos <espiekos@MIT.EDU>
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:20:15 EST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:18:45 EST
I have been reading a book "Complete nutrition" by Dr. Michael Sharon. I can
by no means verify what he says but his information seems correct when I have
been able to verify it.
Bad things about Cholesterol -- clogs arteries and causes heart attacks
Good things about Cholesterol -- used to make hormones, bile, vitamin D,
membranes, and insulate nerves.
It can be ingested or manufactured by all cells. The liver produces the most,
about 1 g per day. The "average diet" (whatever that is) provides 0.3 g per
day.
"What is more, if we eat less Cholesterol, The liver will increase its own production by as much as eight times! (he refers to Colimore B. and Colimore, S. S.
"nutrition and your body" LA, CA, Light Wave, 1974, p88) It is not Cholesterol
that should be blamed for furred up arteries and heart attacks, but out diets
which are deficient in the nutrients needed to metabolize cholesterol
properly."
He goes on to say that these deficient nutrients include choline, inositol,
lecithin, B3, B6, bran, Vitamin E, C, raw wheat germ, Chromium, Magnesium,
and Manganese. The point here is that vegans may have as much cholesterol
in their system as meat eaters, except that they have so many more nutrients
in them from all the vegies, it probably does not matter. I don't know if
this line of thinking is true. Also, it is Sharon's "agenda" to point
out where deficiencies in vitamins due to an imbalanced diet leads to
bad things. Not a bad "agenda," but an agenda nonetheless.
Of these Lecithin is perhaps the most important because it
forms HDL, high density lipoprotein, the "good cholesterol." HDL scavenges
cholesterol instead of depositing it. Sharon says that the average egg has
200 mg of cholesterol, but it has 1700 mg of lecithin. So it is not clear
whether eggs would contribute to LDL levels (low density lipoprotein,
which is corrolated to arterial deposits).
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>>>> Salmonellosis is not the only danger with eating
>>>> eggs and flesh...
As long as eggs are cooked, salmonellosis is not a problem. salmonella
is a bacteria destroyed by heat. Stuff with eggs in it, like cookie dough,
can still be a problem until they are baked into cookies.
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>If I remember correctly from biology classes, one way that cholesterol
>can be manufactored is from vitamin D.
Lubert Stryer's book "Biochemistry" states that Vitamin D is formed from
cholesterol by a UV photon from the sun. This is the little-kids-
stay-inside-all-winter-and-get-no-sun-and-develop-rickets thing.
Hope the info is helpful,
Kevin L. Cunningham
