Nutrimental Healthcare

It turns out that the long-villanized egg has been cleared of its previous charges that it effects lead to heart disease. A new study in China of more than 500,000 people over the course of a 9-year follow up indicates that eggs do not effect heart disease risk, which corresponds to the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020 released in 2016 about dietary cholesterol having no effects on the increased risk of elevated blood cholesterol, a marker of increased heart attack and stroke risk. Eggs actually contain valuable nutrients that are imperative to maintaining health including high quality protein (all other protein foods are actually rated against the egg, which ranks 100 on the 1-100 scale), choline (a super-imporant part of acetylcholine , a neurotransmitt er  in the  p arasympathetic  nervous system  that contracts  smooth muscles , dilates  blood vessels , increases bodily secretions, and slows heart rate), and a range of other B-vitami...

By now you've probably at least heard of trans fats, but may not know much about them. Are they good or bad for our health? What are they? Here's the quick and dirty: In response to the bad science erupting in the 1970's regarding heart disease and saturated fat consumption, the food industry created an alternative type of fat, trans fatty acids. These fats are made by applying high heat and pressure, along with some type of metal catalyst such as nickel, platinum, or palladium, to a fat (usually vegetable oil) to saturate, or fill up, all the bond sites. This alternative was used to create a similar tasting fat in processed foods, but without all the heart attacks and strokes. What was discovered much later was that heart disease continued to soar while saturated fat consumption was down, leading to the realization that trans fats were actually worse on heart health than the previous saturated fats, which is why the FDA ruled that by the end of 2018 all manufacturers mus...