March is National Nutrition Month
according the Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics, and we are celebrating with the incredible egg! You see, the egg is back in a big way, though
for many of us, it never left our list of staple, affordable sources of a
complete protein, called for by many recipes.
You would think eggs would have withstood the test of time and tradition
by now, but there was rather large group of scientist-panels and government
agencies, that believed for a long time that the cholesterol contained in eggs
is bad for us and pushed their guidelines upon our society. But recently these very same scientists and
agencies reversed their stance on the egg, and more specifically on dietary
cholesterol nutrient and the role it plays in blood LDL cholesterol levels. According to The Washington Post in February,
‘In
one short paragraph, the new report from the
nation’s top nutrition panel reverses decades of warnings about dietary
cholesterol. Long one of the arch-villains of the American diet,
cholesterol need no longer be considered a menace to the public health, the
group said. As the panel's report puts it:
“Cholesterol is not a nutrient of
concern.”’.
