Hello everyone,
I am quite new to all this and I was wondering if anyone has any specific information in regards to how healthy eggs are in your diet?
I understand that the white is quite high in protein, but there seems to be a lot of speculation in regards to how healthy the yolks can be, either cooked or runny.
Any website links or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Eggs taste awesome.
Just do a google search for triathlon and eggs. Pretty much universally positive recommendations. The old idea that the yolks were high in cholesterol and therefore don’t eat has, I think, essentially been debunked.
I especially like eggs the morning of a race…
they’re fine. I eat 3-4 eggs a day. The eggs-have-too-much-cholesterol thing is a myth. All the vitamins in them are in the yellow!
If you’re going to eat an egg, why not make it a fetal duck egg (hot vit lon or balut)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXucin9iIaE
"Hot vit lon is full of nutrition (each has about 190 calories and offers 14 grams of protein and tons of B-carotene, calcium and other good stuff." (See http://vietworldkitchen.typepad.com/...half-hatched-du.html).
Personally, I’m on a plant-based diet, so I wouldn’t consider either option (regular or fetal).
Unfortunately fetal duck eggs are not readily available in the US for consumption. Have had it before and it is pretty good. I imagine the image of the half born duck is off putting to some but once you get past that, it is rather tasty.
To the OP, I second what others have said. You can find studies that back both sides of the argument. I land in the camp that they are good and if you are going to eat them, eat the whole things otherwise you lose most of the benefit.
Eat it all man. If there was a way to make microwavable egg yolk that came out just like a properly cooked over easy egg, I’d dunk my toast in it. Yolk is good for your soul.
My wife is a registered dietitian and she is a huge fan of eggs. They provide so many vitamins and are nutrient rich, with most of those contained in the yolk. She would actually tell you that the cholesterol contained in foods has less to do with raising your cholesterol levels than consuming saturated fats. Eggs are awesome and delicious, make sure to eat the yolks, that is the best part of the eggs anyway.
Very good for you - add bacon, cheese, sausage, english muffin with lots of butter and you’ve got a great post ride breakfast.
Absent elevated IG-A and IG-I antibodies in your blood (showing a reaction to the egg protein) or autoimmune disorders like thyroid issues of chronic inflammatory issues, eat as many as you want! They got a bad rap for several years but recent studies show some pretty positive results that they are darn good for you. Dietary cholestrol has little to nothing to do with blood lipid levels.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11745-011-3646-x
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/health-benefits-of-eggs.htm
I am quite new to all this and I was wondering if anyone has any specific information in regards to how healthy eggs are in your diet?
Let me start by saying that I love eggs, and our family eats (in limited numbers) organic eggs that don’t come from the sick and profoundly unhealthy conditions of factory farms (but unfortunately that’s about 99% of the eggs on the market).
But knowing for sure the heath effects of eggs is kinda tricky. Many US studies on eggs and health are funded by the egg industry. And industry funding has a remarkable effect of dramatically skewing the results of studies.
Healthy eggs are not gonna kill you. But the evidence is mixed enough that I wouldn’t go totally ape with eating them. This is a recent study that seems to suggest that eating eggs without restraint may not be the best course of action:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/14/news/la-heb-egg-cholesterol-smoking-20120814
This is a recent study that seems to suggest that eating eggs without restraint may not be the best course of action . . .
Study? Cool Hand Luke sorted this out in 1967.
Absent elevated IG-A and IG-I antibodies in your blood (showing a reaction to the egg protein) or autoimmune disorders like thyroid issues of chronic inflammatory issues, eat as many as you want! They got a bad rap for several years but recent studies show some pretty positive results that they are darn good for you. Dietary cholestrol has little to nothing to do with blood lipid levels.
This. And fitness guru Phil Maffetone calls them nature’s perfect food.
If you’re going to eat an egg, why not make it a fetal duck egg (hot vit lon or balut)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXucin9iIaE
"Hot vit lon is full of nutrition (each has about 190 calories and offers 14 grams of protein and tons of B-carotene, calcium and other good stuff." (See http://vietworldkitchen.typepad.com/...half-hatched-du.html).
Personally, I’m on a plant-based diet, so I wouldn’t consider either option (regular or fetal).
Balut is fucking AWESOME.
I remember when I first visited the Philippines with my wife (she’s from there) and her brother and her were trying to “trick me” into eating one. I tried it, liked it, and had 3 more! It was awesome. 
And fitness guru Phil Maffetone calls them nature’s perfect food.
well…he’s completely wrong about that. ice cream is nature’s perfect food.
And fitness guru Phil Maffetone calls them nature’s perfect food.
well…he’s completely wrong about that. ice cream is nature’s perfect food.
Well… nature, Ben, and Jerry.
Another vote here for eggs. FWIW more like 75% in the UK. Was also surprised to learn the US has a greater emphasis on factory farming - antibiotics/hormones in beef, pig rearing crates etc. Just saying like.
And fitness guru Phil Maffetone calls them nature’s perfect food.
well…he’s completely wrong about that. ice cream is nature’s perfect food.
WHAT?! NO NO NO. ITS BACON.
Which is the perfect accompaniment to delicious eggs.
Another vote here for eggs. FWIW more like 75% in the UK. Was also surprised to learn the US has a greater emphasis on factory farming - antibiotics/hormones in beef, pig rearing crates etc. Just saying like.
Not sure about the UK, but at least in the US, there is quite a difference between the eggs from humanely-raised free-range organic chickens and eggs from the factory-farmed variety. The drugs, the conditions, the feed of factory-farmed chickens is so bad as to be sometimes unbelievable. For example, some factory-farmed hens get some, uh, “delicious” food: their own recently born offspring–the male chicks are first asphyxiated by the thousands in large plastic garbage bags, then ground up, and then fed back to momma. Yum!
I’m with the group consensus - eggs are good and they are good for you. I eat 2 every morning cook in a cast iron skillet, with a little hot sauce. That might be a little much for a sedentary person, but if you are exercising daily, I think you’re good.