Eggs and their health benefits {TLrG}

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Eggs are the single most cholesterol packed food in our food choices. If you think, really think about it, eggs are baby chickens, turkeys or ducks not born yet. They are embryos and fetus matter.

Why would anyone think they have health benefits? Yes, benefits to heart disease, and high cholesterol.

Eggs were not meant to be eaten by humans. They were meant to be laid on by the fowl that laid them.

One egg has more saturated fat than a steak, packing 200 MG per egg. The recommended dietary intake of cholesterol is 300mg. So there you have it. Eggs are NOT natures perfect food even though the egg industry has spent billions of dollars trying to convince you otherwise.

From the American Heart Association:

"Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found among the lipids (fats) in the bloodstream and in all your body's cells. It's an important part of a healthy body because it's used to form cell membranes, some hormones and is needed for other functions. But a high level of cholesterol in the blood - hypercholesterolemia - is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, which leads to heart attack.

People get cholesterol in two ways. The body - mainly the liver - produces varying amounts, usually about 1,000 milligrams a day. Foods also can contain cholesterol. Foods from animals (especially egg yolks, meat, poultry, fish, seafood and whole-milk dairy products) contain it. Foods from plants (fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds) don't contain cholesterol.

Typically the body makes all the cholesterol it needs, so people don't need to consume it. Saturated fatty acids are the main culprit in raising blood cholesterol, which increases your risk of heart disease. Trans fats also raise blood cholesterol. But dietary cholesterol also plays a part. The average American man consumes about 337 milligrams of cholesterol a day; the average woman, 217 milligrams."
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Eating eggs at -least six a week -could protect you from ****** cancer.A recent research study in an American journal , shows that women consuming only two eggs per week cut their ****** cancer risk by 44 percent.The highest quality protein second to mother's milk for human nutrition.Several essential vitamins and minerals vital to good health.The yolk has all the fat, but it has its sunny side, with the exception of riboflavin and niacin, the yolk contains a higher proportion of the egg's vitamin than the white.
All the egg's vitamins; A,D,E are in the yolk.It also contains more phosphorus,manganese,iron,iodine, copper and calcium than the white.

(source American egg board)

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Evil eggs. Fat and cholesterol phobics have demonized the innocent, perfectly nutritious egg to the black list of 'bad' foods. It's hard for me to understand how a majority of people cannot conceive some of the basic tenants of nutrition, which are:

Less is more; that is, the more processed the food, the more nutrient diminished it becomes

Natural fats (essential fatty acids) are essential for robust health; altered fats are the basis of most degenerative diseases

If people followed just these two points, there would be a lot less cancer, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and surprisingly to most, hyperactive ADD children and depressed adults. Which brings us back to the lowly egg.

Thanks to the FDA for finally making it official as of January 2006. Of course, most truly health knowledgeable people have known this since the 60's. As for cholesterol, its also been know for decades that truly high levels are mostly due to high altered fat in diet (transfats, margarine, vegetable oils ie a highly processed food diet) and that cholesterol is essential to your cells, liver, brain, skin, and hormone production.

Did you know without cholesterol your body does not produce the right amounts sex hormones and without these a cascade of endocrine disorders begin.

That is just one example. Eggs are also high in lutein and zeaxanthin (carotenoids) which are protective against eye diseases. Have you seen the cancer and vitamin D deficiency coverage in the media the last few years?

Seems the majority of us are deficient in vitamin D, including myself (confirmed through blood testing).

The good news is egg yolks are one of the few food sources of vitamin D. Egg's virtues are almost endless - packed with nutrients you need, satisfying, economical, and easy to prepare.