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R Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:32:43 -0500
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Ken wrote:
>There is a great anecdote in the original book "Protein Power".
>
>It seems that doctors discovered (cf New England Journal of Medicine), an
88
>year old man in a nursing home who had eaten 2 dozen eggs a DAY for the
past 30
>years of his life, and was perfectly healthy and had normal blood
cholesterol
>levels.
>
>I.E. There is no reason to consider eggs in any way "unsafe".

Yes, that was a great passage.  But what about high levels of arachidonic
acid in the egg yolks (arachidonic acid favors the "bad" eicosanoids).
Don't the Eades (and Sears for that matter) recommend a ratio of at least 2
egg whites to each egg yolk (no egg yolks may be even better)?

Rob

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