Dietary Cholesterol No Longer a 'Nutrient of Concern'

Top U.S. Nutrition Panel Rules That Dietary Cholesterol No Longer a "Nutrient of Concern"

Not guilty...and it’s about time. That’s my take on the 2015 finding of the influential U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that cholesterol in food is “not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” Until now, the “official” position on cholesterol consumption has been to keep it below 300 milligrams a day because of the fear of contributing to so-called high cholesterol in the blood and therefore to heart disease. For perspective, one egg yolk contains 200 milligrams.

As a result people have avoided healthy animal foods like whole eggs, butter, dairy, meat, and seafood, all of which contain cholesterol. And, for decades, the “no cholesterol” claim on labels has dominated food packaging and marketing, and strongly influenced consumer food purchases.

A Bugaboo Bites the Dust

All that’s likely to change with the far-reaching decision of the expert panel that meets every five years and provides the scientific basis for official and medical establishment nutritional guidelines.

Precisely, the committee has now said that the previous limitation on dietary cholesterol for Americans will not be brought forward “because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol.”

In other words, eating foods with cholesterol doesn’t significantly affect the cholesterol level in your blood.

http://www.heartmdinstitute.com/health-topics/cholesterol/642-at-last-u-s-nutrition-panel-to-pardon-dietary-cholesterol

Citing scientific evidence, the leading nutrition advisory group in the U.S. has reversed a longstanding position on cholesterol in food.

The advisory group is an expert panel that helps the government establish its official dietary guidelines every five years. Its new findings (finally!) exonerate dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern for overconsumption. You read me right! Cholesterol, which has been vilified for decades, is no longer seen by mainstream experts as something to limit or eliminate from your diet as a means of preventing high cholesterol levels in your body.

If you are concerned - unnecessarily, I believe - about the danger of cholesterol, the panel's new recommendation means you can basically stop worrying about eating egg yolks and other animal-based foods. Whether the U.S. government will officially adopt this recommendation remains to be seen; its official dietary recommendations will be published later this year.

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Top U.S. Nutrition Panel Rules That Dietary Cholesterol No Longer a "Nutrient of Concern"

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