For years, people have been told by doctors and other experts that cholesterol is bad for you and that eggs, a source of cholesterol, should be eaten no more than once a week. But, as more research has shown, what we have been hearing for years has been wrong and misleading. Eggs and cholesterol are not only good for you, but cholesterol serves a very important purpose within your body.
The truth is, you do not want to overeat and increase your body’s cholesterol levels to levels beyond what they should be. But, luckily, your liver has all of that under control. When you decrease your cholesterol intake, say by eating less eggs, your liver will compensate by producing more cholesterol. If you take in far more cholesterol than you should, your liver will decrease the amount that it produces and so, no matter what, your cholesterol levels should stay within normal ranges.
Cholesterol is said to serve as a type of antioxidant against dangerous free radicals that may be found within your blood. It also helps produce hormones that can help combat heart disease, which debunks one of the many cholesterol-related myths about high cholesterol as a cause for heart disease. Cholesterol levels have been shown to rise when there is a presence of high levels of sugars and damaged fats, which come from a diet of unhealthy processed foods. Cholesterol is useful in combating these unwanted and unneeded substances to keep your body healthy.
Eggs, which are a food source high in cholesterol, are also high in protein which not only promotes weight loss and a healthy immune system but also aids in abating those terrible cravings for food that are actually bad for us. If you combine a healthy diet with a normal cholesterol intake and physical activity, your body and cholesterol levels will be in great shape.
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